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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365903" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Cavalier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He'd wandered into the party through<br>The French Doors, facing the lake, <br>Was vague, and missing a bob or two, <br>Perhaps he'd made a mistake? <br>Taken a left at the crossroads where<br>The kids had hidden the sign, <br>Instead of a right to the Graham's house, <br>I'd ask him, given the time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The party was getting out of hand<br>The punch was spiked with gin, <br>And vodka and tequila and…<br>God knows what else was in! <br>For Jane was down to her underwear<br>While Pat fell down in a heap, <br>And Margaret danced on the table while<br>Her kids were sound asleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The clock in the hall struck midnight then<br>And I was getting tired, <br>I went on the hunt for Carolyn, <br>I thought that she'd expired, <br>But there she was, in the corner with<br>The stranger in the hat, <br>A funny thing with a feather in<br>And fancy dress, at that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I thought that I'd introduce myself, <br>I'd not seen him before, <br>Perhaps he worked at the agency, <br>I'd ask, she'd know the score, <br>But Carolyn acted nervous when<br>I tried to hold her hand, <br>‘What gentleman is this, I pray? '<br>He asked of Carolyn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Oh Phil, he's simply a husband, '<br>She replied, she was sublime, <br>I note she mentioned ‘a husband' but<br>No mention that ‘He's mine! '<br>‘And what are these folk that prate, disport<br>And act themselves remiss, <br>Is he from the Long Parliament? <br>God help him, if he is! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I knew the punch had been tampered with<br>But he hadn't been there long, <br>Maybe he'd savoured something else, <br>Who knew what he was on! <br>But Carolyn gave me that funny look<br>And I edged back into the room, <br>Leaving the two of them talking there<br>In the corner, in the gloom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'd always had an arrangement, she<br>Had friends, and I had mine, <br>We never questioned each other, and<br>We found that it worked out fine, <br>She'd spend a night on the town or so<br>And fix me up a tray, <br>While I'd go visiting Annabel<br>For a tumble in the hay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'd purchased the house at Kineton, <br>When she'd said: ‘It has such charm! '<br>And I was content to be out there<br>In the country, near a farm, <br>They said the place was historic<br>Dating back to the civil war, <br>But not ‘til the night of the party<br>Did I give it a second thought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By one, the following morning, when<br>The party was winding down, <br>I found that Carolyn disappeared<br>With the stranger to the town, <br>She sent me a mobile message, ‘Will<br>You come and get me, Phil? <br>I'm right in the heart of a skirmish<br>Down the slope, just by Edgehill! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I drove to the ancient battlefield<br>In the dark, on a Moonless night, <br>But nothing stirred in the field out there<br>In the beam of the car's headlight, <br>My phone lit up with another call<br>And her voice came drifting through, <br>‘My God, I'm stuck in a battle, Phil, <br>In 1642! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She'd taken off with the Cavalier, <br>I knew what he was by now, <br>A straggler caught in the folds of time<br>That had fetched up here, somehow, <br>And Carolyn faded into the past<br>As she'd made it more than clear, <br>I'm the only man with a wife that ran<br>Away with a Cavalier! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">25 August 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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