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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117119" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Canto II — Hys Fyve Rules</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">"My First — but don't suppose," he said,<br>"I'm setting you a riddle —<br>Is — if your Victim be in bed,<br>Don't touch the curtains at his head,<br>But take them in the middle,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And wave them slowly in and out,<br>While drawing them asunder;<br>And in a minute's time, no doubt,<br>He'll raise his head and look about<br>With eyes of wrath and wonder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And here you must on no pretence<br>Make the first observation.<br>Wait for the Victim to commence:<br>No Ghost of any common sense<br>Begins a conversation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"If he should say 'How came you here?'<br>(The way that you began, Sir,)<br>In such a case your course is clear —<br>'On the bat's back, my little dear!'<br>Is the appropriate answer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"If after this he says no more,<br>You'd best perhaps curtail your<br>Exertions — go and shake the door,<br>And then, if he begins to snore,<br>You'll know the thing's a failure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"By day, if he should be alone —<br>At home or on a walk —<br>You merely give a hollow groan,<br>To indicate the kind of tone<br>In which you mean to talk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"But if you find him with his friends,<br>The thing is rather harder.<br>In such a case success depends<br>On picking up some candle-ends,<br>Or butter, in the larder.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"With this you make a kind of slide<br>(It answers best with suet),<br>On which you must contrive to glide,<br>And swing yourself from side to side —<br>One soon learns how to do it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The Second tells us what is right<br>In ceremonious calls:—<br>'First burn a blue or crimson light'<br>(A thing I quite forgot to-night),<br>'Then scratch the door or walls.'"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said "You'll visit here no more,<br>If you attempt the Guy.<br>I'll have no bonfires on my floor —<br>And, as for scratching at the door,<br>I'd like to see you try!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The Third was written to protect<br>The interests of the Victim,<br>And tells us, as I recollect,<br>To treat him with a grave respect,<br>And not to contradict him."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"That's plain," said I, "as Tare and Tret,<br>To any comprehension:<br>I only wish some Ghosts I've met<br>Would not so constantly forget<br>The maxim that you mention!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Perhaps," he said, "you first transgressed<br>The laws of hospitality:<br>All Ghosts instinctively detest<br>The Man that fails to treat his guest<br>With proper cordiality.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"If you address a Ghost as 'Thing!'<br>Or strike him with a hatchet,<br>He is permitted by the King<br>To drop all formal parleying —<br>And then you're sure to catch it!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The Fourth prohibits trespassing<br>Where other Ghosts are quartered:<br>And those convicted of the thing<br>(Unless when pardoned by the King)<br>Must instantly be slaughtered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"That simply means 'be cut up small':<br>Ghosts soon unite anew.<br>The process scarcely hurts at all —<br>Not more than when you're what you call<br>'Cut up' by a Review.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The Fifth is one you may prefer<br>That I should quote entire:—<br>The King must be addressed as 'Sir.'<br>This, from a simple courtier,<br>Is all the laws require:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"But, should you wish to do the thing<br>With out-and-out politeness,<br>Accost him as 'My Goblin King!<br>And always use, in answering,<br>The phrase 'Your Royal Whiteness!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear,<br>After so much reciting :<br>So, if you don't object, my dear,<br>We'll try a glass of bitter beer —<br>I think it looks inviting."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lewis+Carroll">Lewis Carroll</a> from <i>Phantasmagoria</i><div class=q>
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