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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365935" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fortune Teller</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He entered the Fortune Teller's tent<br>When nobody was around, <br>He didn't want to be seen in there<br>By the friends that would put him down, <br>The woman that sat there, heavily veiled<br>With her hands on a crystal ball, <br>Said: ‘Cross my palm with silver, sir, <br>The crystal reveals it all! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sat, but nervously sitting there<br>His mind had become a blank, <br>All of the questions he'd thought before<br>Had gone, and his spirits sank.<br>‘I see a lot of confusion here<br>The crystal echoes your mind, <br>What was the thing that you wanted most<br>Of the things that you sought to find? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He dredged in the recess of his soul, <br>Just what did he really lack? <br>His life had been more than successful<br>There was nothing that he'd take back, <br>But he felt an awful ache just then<br>From the pit of his lonely heart, <br>‘I still haven't found a woman to love, <br>So that will do, for a start! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She waved her hands on the crystal ball<br>And he noticed the twisting shapes, <br>Shadows of past liaisons that<br>Had passed through his garden gates.<br>‘Perhaps you treat them unfairly<br>I see tears here by the score, <br>The women that you rejected, what<br>On earth were you looking for? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘I was looking for love, ' he stammered out, <br>He could see she wasn't convinced, <br>‘Love is the one thing left behind<br>That you haven't revisited since.'<br>And he thought of June, of Carolyn<br>And the love that shone from their eyes, <br>But he'd been so very much younger then<br>He confessed, and not very wise! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘They were only poor young village girls, <br>I'd set my heart on a dream, <br>I wanted a lady of fashion then<br>A Duchess, even a Queen! '<br>‘Do you think that pearls and coronets<br>Are the signs of a loving heart? <br>You'd find the cost of upkeeping them<br>Are the things that set you apart.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘There was a girl, ' he began again<br>That I could have loved with my life, '<br>He stopped and thought about Carolyn, <br>‘I should have made her my wife! '<br>‘I see her, here in the crystal ball<br>Surrounded by all of your lies, <br>She loved you once in the wherewithal<br>But you turned, and cast her aside.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Do you think she'd give me a second chance<br>If I knocked at the girl's front door, <br>Would she put out the welcome mat for me, <br>Or wish that I'd never been born? <br>I must admit I deserve it, I<br>Have lived my life like a fool, <br>The dreams I had were beyond me, I<br>Regret I was ever so cruel! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘The crystal sees you approach her door, <br>You're getting down on your knees, <br>It shows you grovelling on the floor<br>In a vain attempt to please.'<br>‘I'll do it! She may forgive me then…'<br>And he left the tent in a spin, <br>While the Fortune Teller took off her veil<br>And smiled, did Carolyn! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">8 October 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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When nobody was around, 
He didn't want to be seen in there
By the friends that would put him down, 
The woman that sat there, heavily veiled
With her hands on a crystal ball, 
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