<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117932" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wine and Water</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale,<br>He ate his egg with a ladle in a egg-cup big as a pail,<br>And the soup he took was Elephant Soup and fish he took was Whale,<br>But they all were small to the cellar he took when he set out to sail,<br>And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,<br>"I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cataract of the cliff of heaven fell blinding off the brink<br>As if it would wash the stars away as suds go down a sink,<br>The seven heavens came roaring down for the throats of hell to drink,<br>And Noah he cocked his eye and said, "It looks like rain, I think,<br>The water has drowned the Matterhorn as deep as a Mendip mine,<br>But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Noah he sinned, and we have sinned; on tipsy feet we trod,<br>Till a great big black teetotaller was sent to us for a rod,<br>And you can't get wine at a P.S.A., or chapel, or Eisteddfod,<br>For the Curse of Water has come again because of the wrath of God,<br>And water is on the Bishop's board and the Higher Thinker's shrine,<br>But I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=G.K.+Chesterton">G.K. Chesterton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117932" data-title="Wine and Water de G.K. Chesterton" data-description="Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale,/He ate his egg with a ladle in a egg-cup big as a pail,/And the soup he took was Elephant Soup and fish he took was Whale,/But they all were small to the cellar he took when he set ou..."></div> </div> </div>

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