<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384659" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ogre Slam-The-Door</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is a certain castle that is beautiful and fair,<br>And plants, and birds, and pretty things, fill every room and hall,<br>But alas! for the unhappy folks who make their dwelling there,<br>A dreadful ogre haunts the house and tries to kill them all.<br>Some day I fear will find them dead and stretched out in their gore<br>The victims of this ogre grim, this wicked Slam-the-door!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He's a very tiny ogre just about as tall as you!<br>He never carries hidden arms, or plays with guns and knives.<br>And yet he almost splits the heads of people thro' and thro.'<br>And I think him very dangerous to comfort and to lives.<br>And he often shakes the castle from the ceiling to the floor.<br>This awful, awful ogre known as little Slam-the-door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He gets up bright and early, and he's, oh, so wide awake!<br>And wo! to all the sleepy heads and invalids who doze,<br>They dream the sky is caving in, or that a vast earthquake<br>Has suddenly convulsed the world and ended their repose,<br>As to and fro, and up and down, still noisier than before,<br>They hear the hurrying, flurrying feet of ogre Slam-the-door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Though the Princess of the Castle has a headache, and is ill,<br>Though the Prince is in his study and wants quiet for an hour,<br>This wicked little ogre won't be quiet-or keep still<br>I almost think he sometimes knows he has them in his power.<br>Alas, alas for all the folks, their sorrows I deplore-<br>The folks shut in that castle with the ogre Slam-the-door.</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=384659" data-title="The Ogre Slam-The-Door de Ella Wheeler Wilcox" data-description="There is a certain castle that is beautiful and fair, And plants, and birds, and pretty things, fill every room and hall, But alas! for the unhappy folks who make their dwelling there, A dreadful ogre haunts the house and tries to kill them all. S..."></div> </div> </div>

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