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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355302" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Auld Wife</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">PART I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The auld wife sat at her ivied door, <br> (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) <br>A thing she had frequently done before; <br> And her spectacles lay on her apron’d knees. <br> <br>The piper he pip’d on the hill-top high, <br> (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) <br>Till the cow said, “I die,” and the goose asked “Why?” <br> And the dog said nothing, but search’d for fleas. <br> <br>The farmer he strode through the square farmyard; <br> (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)<br>His last brew of ale was a trifle hard, <br> The connection of which with the plot one sees. <br> <br>The farmer’s daughter hath frank blue eyes; <br> (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) <br>She hears the rooks caw in the windy skies,<br> As she sits at her lattice and shells her peas. <br> <br>The farmer’s daughter hath ripe red lips; <br> (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) <br>If you try to approach her away she skips <br> Over tables and chairs with apparent ease.<br> <br>The farmer’s daughter hath soft brown hair; <br> (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) <br>And I met with a ballad, I can’t say where, <br> Which wholly consisted of lines like these. <br> <br>  PART II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She sat with her hands ’neath her dimpled cheeks,<br> (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) <br>And spake not a word. While a lady speaks <br> There is hope, but she did n’t even sneeze. <br> <br>She sat with her hands ’neath her crimson cheeks; <br> (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)<br>She gave up mending her father’s breeks, <br> And let the cat roll in her best chemise. <br> <br>She sat with her hands ’neath her burning cheeks, <br> (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) <br>And gaz’d at the piper for thirteen weeks; <br> Then she follow’d him out o’er the misty leas. <br> <br>Her sheep follow’d her, as their tails did them, <br> (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) <br>And this song is consider’d a perfect gem; <br> And as to the meaning, it ’s what you please.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Stuart+Calverley">Charles Stuart Calverley</a><div class=q>
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The auld wife sat at her ivied door, 
 (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) 
A thing she had frequently done before; 
 And her spectacles lay on her apron’d knees. 
 
The piper he pip’d on the hill-top high, 
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