<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357474" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bridles for Butterflies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They must not talk....That strong and silent creature,<br>The male of homo sapiens, bears the ban<br>With calm aplomb. Speech is a trivial feature<br> In any sport conducted by mere man.<br>Thus, when our flannelled Knights go forth to battle,<br>They dumbly concentrate upon the game.<br>But must athletic Eve refrain from prattle<br>Because of that? No, no! 'Tis not the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Sauce for the goose, 'tis said, is sauce for gander,<br>And vice versa. Futile euphony!<br>To differentiate, defer and pander<br>Was e'er the rule when dealing with the 'She.'<br>Sharp hooks in ears of elephants may steer them<br>Quite painlessly. But what sane man would try<br>To harness doves, or bring a halter near them,<br>Or bit and bridle to a butterfly?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>They must not talk....Such order to a shrinking,<br>Press-dodging cricketer brings small distress,<br>But, listen girls, what sort of sloppy thinking<br>Seeks to extend it to the cricketress?<br>Go, tell the bee she may not buzz in summer<br>'Mid honeyed bloom. Go, bid the bush birds 'Hush!'<br>Emus are dumb indeed - could scarce be dumber;<br>But who, for that, would gag the singing thrush?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>So, when you note the agonised expression<br>On Short-stop's flower-like face, the look of pain<br>That lurks 'neath Long-on's lip-stick, 'tis repression<br>That irks them temporarily; but in vain.<br>For, soon or late, the prisoned flood, o'erflowing<br>Each carmined lip, down thro' the land shall spill<br>To what far field man ne'er had means of knowing.<br>They must not talk? ... Sez you! ... They must - and will.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357474" data-title="Bridles for Butterflies de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="They must not talk....That strong and silent creature, The male of homo sapiens, bears the ban With calm aplomb. Speech is a trivial feature In any sport conducted by mere man. Thus, when our flannelled Knights go forth to battle, They dumbly con..."></div> </div> </div>

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