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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117142" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Riddle 1</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THERE was an ancient City, stricken down<br>With a strange frenzy, and for many a day<br>They paced from morn to eve the crowded town,<br>And danced the night away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I asked the cause: the aged man grew sad:<br>They pointed to a building gray and tall,<br>And hoarsely answered "Step inside, my lad,<br>And then you'll see it all."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet what are all such gaieties to me<br>Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?<br>x² + 7x + 53</div><div style="margin:10px 0">  = 11/3.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But something whispered "It will soon be done:<br>Bands cannot always play, nor ladies smile:<br>Endure with patience the distasteful fun<br>For just a little while!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A change came o'er my Vision - it was night:<br>We clove a pathway through a frantic throng:<br>The steeds, wild-plunging, filled us with affright:<br>The chariots whirled along.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within a marble hall a river ran -<br>A living tide, half muslin and half cloth:<br>And here one mourned a broken wreath or fan,<br>Yet swallowed down her wrath;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And here one offered to a thirsty fair<br>(His words half-drowned amid those thunders tuneful)<br>Some frozen viand (there were many there),<br>A tooth-ache in each spoonful.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There comes a happy pause, for human strength<br>Will not endure to dance without cessation;<br>And every one must reach the point at length<br>Of absolute prostration.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At such a moment ladies learn to give,<br>To partners who would urge them over-much,<br>A flat and yet decided negative -<br>Photographers love such.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There comes a welcome summons - hope revives,<br>And fading eyes grow bright, and pulses quicken:<br>Incessant pop the corks, and busy knives<br>Dispense the tongue and chicken.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flushed with new life, the crowd flows back again:<br>And all is tangled talk and mazy motion -<br>Much like a waving field of golden grain,<br>Or a tempestuous ocean.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thus they give the time, that Nature meant<br>For peaceful sleep and meditative snores,<br>To ceaseless din and mindless merriment<br>And waste of shoes and floors.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And One (we name him not) that flies the flowers,<br>That dreads the dances, and that shuns the salads,<br>They doom to pass in solitude the hours,<br>Writing acrostic-ballads.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How late it grows! The hour is surely past<br>That should have warned us with its double knock?<br>The twilight wanes, and morning comes at last -<br>"Oh, Uncle, what's o'clock?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Uncle gravely nods, and wisely winks.<br>It MAY mean much, but how is one to know?<br>He opens his mouth - yet out of it, methinks,<br>No words of wisdom flow.</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>Four Riddles</i><div class=q>
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