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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345865" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Nell Flaherty’s Drake</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">MY NAME it is Nell, right candid I tell, <br> And I live near a dell I ne’er will deny, <br>I had a large drake, the truth for to spake, <br> My grandfather left me when going to die; <br>He was merry and sound, and would weigh twenty pound, <br> The universe round would I rove for his sake. <br>Bad luck to the robber, be he drunken or sober, <br> That murdered Nell Flaherty’s beautiful drake. <br> <br>His neck it was green, and rare to be seen, <br> He was fit for a queen of the highest degree. <br>His body so white, it would you delight, <br> He was fat, plump, and heavy, and brisk as a bee. <br>This dear little fellow, his legs they were yellow, <br> He could fly like a swallow, or swim like a hake, <br>But some wicked habbage, to grease his white cabbage, <br> Has murdered Nell Flaherty’s beautiful drake! <br> <br>May his pig never grunt, may his cat never hunt, <br> That a ghost may him haunt in the dark of the night. <br>May his hens never lay, may his horse never neigh, <br> May his goat fly away like an old paper kite; <br>May his duck never quack, may his goose be turned black <br> And pull down his stack with her long yellow beak. <br>May the scurvy and itch never part from the britch <br> Of the wretch that murdered Nell Flaherty’s drake! <br> <br>May his rooster ne’er crow, may his bellows not blow, <br> Nor potatoes to grow—may he never have none— <br>May his cradle not rock, may his chest have no lock, <br> May his wife have no frock for to shade her backbone. <br>That the bugs and the fleas may this wicked wretch tease, <br> And a piercing north breeze make him tremble and shake. <br>May a four-years’-old bug build a nest in the lug <br> Of the monster that murdered Nell Flaherty’s drake. <br> <br>May his pipe never smoke, may his tea-pot be broke, <br> And to add to the joke may his kettle not boil; <br>May he be poorly fed till the hour he is dead. <br> May he always be fed on lobscouse and fish oil. <br>May he swell with the gout till his grinders fall out, <br> May he roar, howl, and shout with a horrid toothache, <br>May his temple wear horns and his toes carry corns, <br> The wretch that murdered Nell Flaherty’s drake. <br> <br>May his dog yelp and howl with both hunger and cold, <br> May his wife always scold till his brains go astray. <br>May the curse of each hag, that ever carried a bag, <br> Light down on the wag till his head it turns gray. <br>May monkeys still bite him, and mad dogs affright him, <br> And every one slight him, asleep or awake. <br>May wasps ever gnaw him, and jackdaws ever claw him, <br> The monster that murdered Nell Flaherty’s drake. <br> <br>But the only good news I have to diffuse, <br> Is of Peter Hughes and Paddy McCade, <br>And crooked Ned Manson, and big-nosed Bob Hanson, <br> Each one had a grandson of my beautiful drake. <br>Oh! my bird he has dozens of nephews and cousins, <br> And one I must have, or my heart it will break. <br>To keep my mind easy, or else I’ll run crazy, <br> And so ends the song of my beautiful drake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+English">Anonymous English</a><div class=q>
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 And I live near a dell I ne’er will deny, 
I had a large drake, the truth for to spake, 
 My grandfather left me when going to die; 
He was merry and sound, and would weigh twenty pound, 
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