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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365792" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mismatch</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd known them as young love's delight<br>Back thirty years ago, <br>When Sam and Esmerelda wed<br>They'd put on a travelling show, <br>With clowns and jugglers, acrobats<br>And a fortune teller's tent, <br>Perhaps they should have considered the date, <br>Not staged the show in Lent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She came from money, but he was poor, <br>They didn't seem to care, <br>‘What's mine is yours, ' she'd always say<br>As she braided up her hair.<br>They settled down in a country house<br>Held parties, meets and wakes, <br>And lived most ostentatiously, <br>Just one of their many mistakes! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But how they loved! They'd always sigh<br>To many who came to stay, <br>‘Sam is the greatest love, ' she said<br>That a girl could want today! '<br>‘And Esmy, she is my beating heart, <br>We're like two halves of the whole! '<br>For ever they'd wander hand in hand<br>In the parklands, out for a stroll.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They lived for the country lifestyle, <br>They would ride to fox and hounds, <br>But Sam would travel a pace behind<br>In the old foxhunting grounds, <br>He wasn't ever as ‘Pukka' to them, <br>The gentry, so it was said, <br>That all the old Indian Colonels<br>Turned away, and cut him dead! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Esmerelda was more than blind<br>To the things that tore him up, <br>For she was quite the belle of the ball<br>When they raised the stirrup cup, <br>The men would always defer to her<br>They loved her, and adored, <br>While other women detested her, <br>And Sam was merely bored.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They'd travel to watch the steeplechase, <br>And Sam would double his bet, <br>He wasn't a judge of horseflesh, nor<br>Had fancied a winner yet, <br>He took out all his frustration there<br>While Esmy dazzled her friends, <br>The more he lost, he'd triple the odds<br>In hopes it would make amends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now Esmerelda's Uncle Jack<br>Was in charge of their receipts, <br>He kept his eye on her fortune, was<br>Beginning to scent deceit, <br>He managed to take his niece aside<br>And he whispered in her ear: <br>‘Did you know that your gorgeous husband's<br>Gone through a hundred thousand clear? '<br> <br>The tremor that Esmerelda felt<br>I'll not go into now, <br>Suffice to say, it showed in her face, <br>It troubled her darkening brow, <br>The parties suddenly stopped just then, <br>The house was still as a tomb, <br>And Sam had found himself all alone<br>As he wandered from room to room.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I heard it tell there were voices raised<br>Went echoing over the park, <br>Especially when the nights were clear<br>There were shouts and screams in the dark, <br>Then a team of builders went right in<br>To the house, with something to do, <br>It seems that Esmy showed her love<br>By cutting the house in two! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her Uncle Jack was her one support, <br>‘Don't ever you think of divorce! <br>The courts will order him half that's left, <br>As much as he lost on a horse! '<br>Then Sam attempted to speak to her<br>As the walls rose up at the back, <br>She said: ‘If you need to speak to me, <br>Just talk to my Uncle Jack! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For going on twenty years they lived<br>Apart in that same old house, <br>But never a word was spoken again<br>By Sam to his love-lost spouse, <br>And then, on one long winter's night<br>I saw the flames from the park, <br>The fire began in the side of Sam, <br>And spread, unseen in the dark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Esmerelda was trapped upstairs<br>Way up on the second floor, <br>She saw the smoke and began to choke<br>As she opened the wardrobe door, <br>She must have known there was no escape<br>And perhaps, regretted the mess, <br>For she walked straight out on the balcony, <br>Was seen in her wedding dress! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The firemen got there far too late, <br>The house was barely a shell, <br>The flames had leapt right out of the roof, <br>The scene was a scene from hell, <br>I was standing out on my lawn by then, <br>Just sheltering next to my porch, <br>When I heard her scream, and call for Sam<br>As her dress went up like a torch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'd known them as young love's delight<br>Back thirty years ago, <br>When Sam and Esmerelda wed<br>They'd put on a travelling show, <br>With clowns and jugglers, acrobats<br>And a fortune teller's tent, <br>Perhaps they should have considered the date, <br>Not staged the show in Lent! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">24 June 2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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