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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365999" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Twin with the Purple Heart</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One of the girls had unblemished skin, <br>One had a purple mark, <br>But for the stain on her shoulder there<br>You couldn't tell them apart.<br>While Jane was born at quarter to three<br>Joan was at ten to four, <br>Jane was destined for wealth and fame, <br>While Joan would be always poor! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">As Joan had cried, the mother died, <br>The bombers were over the town, <br>The hospital where the daughters lay<br>Was hit, came tumbling down.<br>An aunt took Jane, and headed north, <br>A nurse took Joan due west, <br>So one was raised in a simple home, <br>The other had only the best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Marchioness of Huntingdon, <br>The title was left to Jane, <br>Along with a hundred thousand pounds, <br>A manor with moat, and game, <br>She'd heard that she had a twin out there<br>But lost in the war at the start, <br>She'd looked in vain, but the daughter Jane<br>Was the twin with the purple heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her aunt had said, it marked her out, <br>The first born, and the heir, <br>To claim the entire inheritance, <br>Her sister had no share, <br>So Jane had put Joan out of her mind, <br>Grew arrogant, and vain, <br>If Joan turned up on her doorstep she<br>Would say that she had no claim! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She fell in love with a nobleman, <br>Impoverished though he was, <br>And he had envied the fortune that<br>His forebears long had lost, <br>He'd been betrothed to a simple girl<br>But said to return the ring, <br>A Baron wed to a Marchioness<br>Was a more exciting thing! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They wed in the Spring in a stately home, <br>His spurned ex-love had cried, <br>She kept the newspaper cuttings of<br>The bridegroom and the bride, <br>She swore she'd get her revenge one day, <br>That this was not the end, <br>And then the Baron had called on her, <br>Asked her to be his friend! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It seemed that Jane had worn him down, <br>Had cut him to the quick, <br>By keeping the Baron penniless, <br>She ruled, she held the stick! <br>He said that he wished that he'd stuck with her, <br>Had kept her for his own, <br>'The likeness is quite remarkable! '<br>He said to the grieving Joan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They schemed, and then they hatched a plot, <br>She bought some purple dye, <br>Tried it out on her shoulder, drew<br>A heart, and he told her why: <br>'For you could pass for the Baroness, <br>I can't tell you apart, <br>To me it's plain, you could take her name <br>As the twin with the purple heart! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Joan turned up on the doorstep then, <br>And Jane was taken aback! <br>'If I didn't know much better, I<br>Would swear you're the twin I lack.'<br>They talked and compared the lives they'd led, <br>And Jane became afraid, <br>'Of course, there is no inheritance, <br>But we need a downstairs maid! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Joan moved in, and lived downstairs, <br>The kitchen became her home, <br>The Baron, he ignored her, played<br>The game that he'd planned with Joan.<br>While Jane was autocratic, <br>Treated Joan as the family shame, <br>With nothing of sister love to spare<br>While the plotters played their game.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While Joan was inking her shoulder, Jane<br>Came marching into her room, <br>'You want to look like your sister, well, <br>That's sweet, ' and laughed in the gloom.<br>'Let's see how much we can fool him, <br>Wear my clothes and wait outside, <br>He's taking me on an outing, <br>Over there, by the riverside! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Joan dressed herself as Jane and went, <br>She thought it a joke supreme, <br>She'd be able to spend some time with him<br>While Jane thought it a scream, <br>The purple heart by her halter top<br>Reflected the summer sun, <br>While the Baron drove, not saying a word<br>As his world became undone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He left her there in the water, drove<br>Back home, and he strode right in, <br>'My God, but you should have seen her! '<br>He began, as she walked to him.<br>He wet his finger and rubbed the heart, <br>Then paled, as she started to laugh, <br>'You can rub and rub 'til eternity, <br>I'm the twin with the purple heart! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">26 February 2010</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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One had a purple mark, 
But for the stain on her shoulder there
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While Jane was born at quarter to three
Joan was at ten to four, 
Jane was destined for wealth and fame, 
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