<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357800" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Banana's Lullaby</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When grandma wished to keep her fruit<br>Her apples she would take<br>And put them on a bed of straw<br>At rest, but wide awake;<br>But newer days have newer modes,<br>And now, that it may keep,<br>They give an orange opiates<br> And sing it off to sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they're telling bedtime stories to bananas,<br>And rocking little raspberries to rest.<br>They will dope an apple silly,<br>And it wakes in Piccadilly<br>From a beauty sleep that makes it look its best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It seems a heartless kind of trick<br>To play on helpless pears;<br>To lull them off to slumberland<br>And soothe their nervous cares,<br>Only to wake them up again,<br>Weeks after, on a plate,<br>On the day of execution<br>To announce their cruel fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But they're telling bedtime stories to bananas,<br>And putting plums to by-by on a ship,<br>And they never have a notion<br>They have been across the ocean,<br>So they even miss the pleasure of the trip.</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=357800" data-title="The Banana's Lullaby de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="When grandma wished to keep her fruit Her apples she would take And put them on a bed of straw At rest, but wide awake; But newer days have newer modes, And now, that it may keep, They give an orange opiates And sing it off to sleep. And they're..."></div> </div> </div>

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