<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384658" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Needle and Thread</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Needle and Thread one day were wed,<br>The Thimble acted as priest,<br>A paper of Pins, and the Scissors twins<br>Were among the guests at the feast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>That dandy trim the Bodkin slim<br>Danced with Miss Tape-measure,<br>But he stepped on her trail, and she called him 'a whale,'<br>And that put an end to their pleasure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Wrinkled and fat the Beeswax sat<br>And talked with the Needle-case.<br>'I am glad,' she said, 'that my niece, the Thread,<br>Has married into this race.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Her mother, the Spool, was a dull old fool,<br>And the Needle and Thread were shy;<br>The result you see came all through me,<br>I taught her to catch his eye.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The Emery-ball just there had a fall-<br>She had danced too long at one time,<br>And that put a stop to the merry hop,<br>And that brings an end to my rhyme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The groom and the bride took their wedding ride<br>Down a long white-seam to the shore,<br>And the guests all said there never was wed<br>So fair a couple before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><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=384658" data-title="The Needle and Thread de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="The Needle and Thread one day were wed, The Thimble acted as priest, A paper of Pins, and the Scissors twins Were among the guests at the feast. That dandy trim the Bodkin slim Danced with Miss Tape-measure, But he stepped on her trail, and she ..."></div> </div> </div>

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