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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384667" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Princess's Finger-Nail: A Tale Of Nonsense Land</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">All through the Castle of High-bred Ease,<br>Where the chief employment was do-as-you-please,<br>Spread consternation and wild despair.<br>The queen was wringing her hands and hair;<br>The maids of honor were sad and solemn;<br>The pages looked blank as they stood in column;<br>The court-jester blubbered, 'Boo-hoo, boo-hoo';<br>The cook in the kitchen dropped tears in the stew;<br>And all through the castle went sob and wail,<br>For the princess had broken her finger-nail:<br>The beautiful Princess Red-as-a-Rose,<br>Bride-elect of the Lord High-Nose,<br>Broken her finger-nail down to the quick-<br>No wonder the queen and her court were sick.<br>Never sorrow so dread before<br>Had dared to enter that castle door.<br>Oh! what would my Lord His-High-Nose say<br>When she took off her glove on her wedding-day?<br>The fairest princess in Nonsense Land,<br>With a broken finger-nail on her hand!<br>'Twas a terrible, terrible accident,<br>And they called a meeting of parliament;<br>And never before that royal Court<br>Had come such question of grave import<br>As 'How could you hurry a nail to grow?'<br>And the skill of the kingdom was called to show.<br>They sent for Monsieur File-'em-off;<br>He smoothed down the corners so ragged and rough.<br>They sent for Madame la Diamond-Dust,<br>Who lived on the fingers of upper-crust;<br>They sent for Professor de Chamois-Skin,<br>Who took her powder and rubbed it in;<br>They sent for the pudgy nurse Fat-on-the-bone<br>To bathe her finger in eau de Cologne;<br>And they called the Court surgeon, Monsieur Red-Tape,<br>To hear what he thought of the new nail's shape.<br>Over the kingdom the telegrams flew<br>Which told how the finger-nail thrived and grew;<br>And all through the realm of Nonsense Land<br>They offered up prayers for the princess's hand.<br>At length the glad tidings were heard with a shout<br>That the princess's finger-nail had grown out:<br>Pointed and polished and pink and clean,<br>Befitting the hand of a some-day queen.<br>Salutes were fired all over the land<br>By the home-guard battery pop-gun band;<br>And great was the joy of my Lord High-Nose,<br>Who straightway ordered his wedding clothes,<br>And paid his tailor, Don Wait-for-aye,<br>Who died of amazement the self-same day.<br>My lord by a jury was judged insane;<br>For they said, and the truth of the saying was plain,<br>That a lord of such very high pedigree<br>Would never be paying his bills, you see,<br>Unless he was out of his head; and so<br>They locked him up without more ado.<br>And the beautiful Princess Red-as-a-Rose<br>Pined for her lover, my Lord High-Nose,<br>Till she entered a convent and took the veil-<br>And this is the end of my nonsense tale.</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>
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Spread consternation and wild despair.
The queen was wringing her hands and hair;
The maids of honor were sad and solemn;
The pages looked blank as they sto..."></div>
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