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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=381144" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The New Vestments</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There lived an old man in the kingdom of Tess,<br>Who invented a purely original dress;<br>And when it was perfectly made and complete,<br>He opened the door, and walked into the street.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By way of a hat, he'd a loaf of Brown Bread,<br>In the middle of which he inserted his head;--<br>His Shirt was made up of no end of dead Mice,<br>The warmth of whose skins was quite fluffy and nice;--<br>His Drawers were of Rabit-skins, -- but it is not known whose;--<br>His Waistcoat and Trowsers were made of Pork Chops;--<br>His Buttons were Jujubes, and Chocolate Drops;--<br>His Coat was all Pancakes with Jam for a border,<br>And a girdle of Biscuits to keep it in order;<br>And he wore over all, as a screen from bad weather,<br>A Cloak of green Cabbage-leaves stitched all together.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He had walked a short way, when he heard a great noise,<br>Of all sorts of Beasticles, Birdlings, and Boys;--<br>And from every long street and dark lane in the town<br>Beasts, Birdles, and Boys in a tumult rushed down.<br>Two Cows and a half ate his Cabbage-leaf Cloak;--<br>Four Apes seized his Girdle, which vanished like smoke;--<br>Three Kids ate up half of his Pancaky Coat,--<br>And the tails were devour'd by an ancient He Goat;--<br>An army of Dogs in a twinkling tore up his<br>Pork Waistcoat and Trowsers to give to their Puppies;--<br>And while they were growling, and mumbling the Chops,<br>Ten boys prigged the Jujubes and Chocolate Drops.--<br>He tried to run back to his house, but in vain,<br>Four Scores of fat Pigs came again and again;--<br>They rushed out of stables and hovels and doors,--<br>They tore off his stockings, his shoes, and his drawers;--<br>And now from the housetops with screechings descend,<br>Striped, spotted, white, black, and gray Cats without end,<br>They jumped on his shoulders and knocked off his hat,--<br>When Crows, Ducks, and Hens made a mincemeat of that;--<br>They speedily flew at his sleeves in trice,<br>And utterly tore up his Shirt of dead Mice;--<br>They swallowed the last of his Shirt with a squall,--<br>Whereon he ran home with no clothes on at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he said to himself as he bolted the door,<br>'I will not wear a similar dress any more,<br>'Any more, any more, any morre, never more!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+Lear">Edward Lear</a><div class=q>
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Who invented a purely original dress;
And when it was perfectly made and complete,
He opened the door, and walked into the street.

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