<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37249" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Butcher's Courtship</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">"On, my Mary Ann," he side,<br>" Will you be my loving bride ? I cannot liver 'nother day without you.<br>Your bright smile lights up my heart,<br>Whisper yes, beefore we part, And the tenderlines of love I'll cast about you!"<br>Then the rascal, growing bolder,<br>Drew her head upon his shoulder, While the ribbones on her bonnet fluttered free,<br>And fore-quarter of an hour<br>They reclined within the bower, And she promised him she ever true would be.<br>" Now," says he, " I must be goin'—<br>Don't you hear the cattle loin ? I can tarry here no longer, love, to-day;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You can steak a silver dollar<br>I shall be a steady caller; Keep your pluck and spirits up while I'm away!"<br>Then he turned to cross a mead Where the horned cattle feed,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And wasn't paying very much attention To the gender of the herd, When there suddenly occurred</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An accident he fain would never mention.<br>He chanced to look a round, When towards him, with a bound, Came their masculine protector o'er the lea;<br>And so brisket seemed to him That his chance was rather slim To flank him, or to even shin a tree.<br>He was bull dosed, so to speak,<br>Sorely rumpled, cowed and weak, And will steer hereafter clear from bulls and cows.<br>The tail, alas! is sad;<br>Would'st shun a bull that's mad ? Then beware the quick contraction of his browse!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Follen+Adams">Charles Follen Adams</a> from <i>Yawcob Strauss and Other Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37249" data-title="The Butcher's Courtship de Charles Follen Adams" data-description=""On, my Mary Ann," he side,/" Will you be my loving bride ? I cannot liver 'nother day without you./Your bright smile lights up my heart,/Whisper yes, beefore we part, And the tenderlines of love I'll cast about you!"/Then the rascal, growing bold..."></div> </div> </div>

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