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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366012" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tick Tock!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There once was a time<br>When there was but one, <br>He came in a sleigh with his bells turned on, <br>With a long white beard and a fat red pelt<br>And a tassle and a bobble and a Sam Browne belt! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just once in the year<br>He'd appear on high, <br>With reindeers, winging through the stars in the sky, <br>And he'd bring all the presents that the kids desired, <br>They'd send him all their letters in the smoke from the fire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the year came round<br>When it all went wrong, <br>While singing and a-playing of the reindeer song, <br>For a boy lay awake while the world was asleep<br>As Saint Nick clambered down the chimney-piece.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fairy on the tree<br>Looked down and around<br>To the holly and the mistletoe, and then, she frowned! <br>For the boy sat and listened to the grandfather clock, <br>As the old clock muttered to the hearth - Tick! Tock! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then a shower of soot<br>And the old black boots, <br>As Santa came a-calling in his old red suit, <br>But he saw a little movement, hidden by the tree<br>And he roared -'No presents for the likes of thee! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He turned to the hearth<br>To the chimney-piece, <br>As the boy sprang out with a whimpered: 'Please! '<br>But the rules had been written by the man in the hood, <br>'I only leave presents where the children are good! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boy thought quick, <br>He'd heard 'Tick! Tock! '<br>He opened up the front of the grandfather clock, <br>Then said, 'That's fine, in a goody-goody home, <br>But what about the kids who are bad to the bone? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then he caught St Nick<br>By his Sam Browne belt, <br>Pulled him off his balance in his old red pelt, <br>Then stuffed him in the front of the grandfather clock<br>That had muttered to the blinking of the tree, Tick! Tock! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boy then turned<br>The key in the lock, <br>Imprisoned him forever in the grandfather clock, <br>He took all the presents from the old man's sack, <br>And once he took the presents there was no going back! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's no more Santa<br>And there's no more sleigh<br>For it got a parking ticket on the very next day, <br>And the parking inspector set the reindeer free, <br>For no-one asked the question - 'Where can he be? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So now there are streets full<br>Of men in red suits, <br>With their false white beards, and their fake black boots<br>With the only real Santa, imprisoned in a clock, <br>He's jammed against the pendulum, it can't - Tick! Tock! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">11 December 2009</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 there was but one, 
He came in a sleigh with his bells turned on, 
With a long white beard and a fat red pelt
And a tassle and a bobble and a Sam Browne belt! 

Just once in the year
He'd appear on high, 
With reindeers,..."></div>
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