<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340129" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Any Prince To Any Princess</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">August is coming <br>and the goose, I'm afraid, <br>is getting fat. <br>There have been <br>no golden eggs for some months now. <br>Straw has fallen well below market price <br>despite my frantic spinning <br>and the sedge is, <br>as you rightly point out, <br>withered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can't imagine how the pea <br>got under your mattress. I apologize <br>humbly. The chambermaid has, of course, <br>been sacked. As has the frog footman. <br>I understand that, during my recent fact-finding tour of the <br> Golden River, <br>despite your nightly unavailing efforts, <br>he remained obstinately <br>froggish.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I hope that the Three Wishes granted by the General <br> Assembly <br>will go some way towards redressing <br>this unfortunate recent sequence of events. <br>The fall in output from the shoe-factory, for example: <br>no one could have foreseen the work-to-rule <br>by the National Union of Elves. Not to mention the fact <br>that the court has been fast asleep <br>for the last six and a half years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The matter of the poisoned apple has been taken up <br>by the Board of Trade: I think I can assure you <br>the incident will not be <br>repeated.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can quite understand, in the circumstances, <br>your reluctance to let down <br>your golden tresses. However <br>I feel I must point out <br>that the weather isn't getting any better <br>and I already have a nasty chill <br>from waiting at the base <br>of the White Tower. You must see <br>the absurdity of the <br> situation. <br>Some of the courtiers are beginning to talk, <br>not to mention the humble villagers. <br>It's been three weeks now, and not even <br>a word.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Princess, <br>a cold, black wind <br>howls through our empty palace. <br>Dead leaves litter the bedchamber; <br>the mirror on the wall hasn't said a thing <br>since you left. I can only ask, <br>bearing all this in mind, <br>that you think again,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">let down your hair,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">reconsider.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Adrian+Henri">Adrian Henri</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=340129" data-title="Any Prince To Any Princess de Adrian Henri" data-description="August is coming and the goose, I'm afraid, is getting fat. There have been no golden eggs for some months now. Straw has fallen well below market price despite my frantic spinning and the sedge is, as you rightly point out, withered. I ..."></div> </div> </div>

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