<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360261" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Scotch Rhapsody</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do not take a bath in Jordan, Gordon,<br>On the holy Sabbath, on the peaceful day! '<br>Said the huntsman, playing on his old bagpipe,<br>Boring to death the pheasant and the snipe —<br>Boring the ptarmigan and grouse for fun —<br>Boring them worse than a nine-bore gun.<br>Till the flaxen leaves where the prunes are ripe,<br>Heard the tartan wind a-droning in the pipe,<br>And they heard Macpherson say:<br>'Where do the waves go? What hotels<br>Hide their bustles and their gay ombrelles? <br>And would there be room? —</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would there be room? <br>Would there be room<br>for<br>me? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a hotel at Ostend<br>Cold as the wind, without an end,<br>Haunted by ghostly poor relations<br>Of Bostonian conversations<br>(Like bagpipes rotting through the walls.) <br>And there the pearl-ropes fall like shawls<br>With a noise like marine waterfalls.<br>And 'Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm! '<br>Pierces through the Sabbatical calm.<br>And that is the place for me! <br>So do not take a bath in Jordan, Gordon,<br>On the holy Sabbath, on the peaceful day —<br>Or you'll never go to heaven, Gordon Macpherson,<br>And speaking purely as a private person</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That is the place<br>— that is the place<br>— that is the<br>place<br>for<br>me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dame+Edith+Louisa+Sitwell">Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell</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=360261" data-title="Scotch Rhapsody de Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell" data-description="Do not take a bath in Jordan, Gordon, On the holy Sabbath, on the peaceful day! ' Said the huntsman, playing on his old bagpipe, Boring to death the pheasant and the snipe — Boring the ptarmigan and grouse for fun — Boring them worse than a ni..."></div> </div> </div>

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