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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384678" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Song Of The Sandwich</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We<br>met at night in the season's hight,<br>Mid revel and mirth and song.<br>I looked in your eye with a mute, mute cry,<br>As you elbowed your way through the throng.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Alone in that crowd of men who bowed,<br>And flattered, and flirted around,<br>Your quick thought guessed the woe in my breast,<br>And you sprang to my side with a bound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In a whisper as faint as a south wind's plaint,<br>I murmured my need to you.<br>'A sandwich!' I wailed, then your strong eye quailed,<br>For oh! they were thin and few.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And about them hustled and pushed and tussled,<br>A score of desperate men.<br>But you drew your breath, and you hissed ''Sdeath!'<br>And then you turned back again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Ladye!' you cried with haughty pride,<br>While your dark eye flashed on me,<br>'If I risk my life in yon seething strife<br>What shall my guerdon be?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'May I hope for a line that shall be all mine,<br>A song by the world unheard?<br>From rivals detested, shall the sandwich be wrested,<br>If thou wilt but say the word.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'If you reach that goal, I vow by my soul,<br>(I spoke in a desperate tone)<br>And I live till that time, I will write you a rhyme,<br>A rhyme to be all your own.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Nay more, if you try, and in warfare die,<br>As sometimes befalls the brave,<br>In lines of glory I'll wreathe your story<br>And lay them upon your grave.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Like a knight of old, with an air that was bold,<br>You turned from my side and went,<br>Past salad dish, past deviled fish,<br>Past cake and condiment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>With a step unswerving and a speed deserving<br>A better reward-alack!<br>You crossed the room 'neath the red globes' gloom,<br>Bent on the sandwich's track</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>My heart stood still in a nameless chill,<br>As I saw you stride away,<br>For fair girls' smiles, and punch bowl's wiles,<br>Both by your roadside lay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>With the fever fire of hunger dire,<br>I saw you pass them straight,<br>And I almost wept as your bold hand swept<br>To the waning sandwich plate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Then back you came with your cheek aflame,<br>And the victor's glow in your eye;<br>Oh! it was grand to see you stand<br>With the sandwich held on high.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>So here and now, I keep my vow;<br>(Tho' the sandwich is no more)<br>I would rise from my hearse and write that verse,<br>If it were not written before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Envoi</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poet, we know that many men go,<br>Forth on that self-same track,<br>With purpose as high, to do or die,<br>But they bring no sandwich back.</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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met at night in the season's hight,
Mid revel and mirth and song.
I looked in your eye with a mute, mute cry,
As you elbowed your way through the throng.


Alone in that crowd of men who bowed,
And flattered, and flirted around,
Your quick thou..."></div>
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