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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384952" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; II:</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Little Ballads Of Timely Warning; II: On Malicious Cruelty To Harmless Creatures<br>The cruelty of P. L. Brown—<br>(He had ten toes as good as mine)<br>Was known to every one in town,<br>And, if he never harmed a noun,<br>He loved to make verbs shriek and whine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The 'To be' family’s just complaints—<br>(Brown had ten toes as good as mine)<br>Made Brown cast off the last restraints:<br>He smashed the 'Is nots' into 'Ain’ts'<br>And kicked both mood and tense supine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Infinitives were Brown’s dislike—<br>(Brown, as I said, had ten good toes)<br>And he would pinch and shake and strike<br>Infinitives, or, with a pike,<br>Prod them and then laugh at their woes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At length this Brown more cruel grew—<br>(Ten toes, all good ones, then had Brown)<br>And to his woodshed door he drew<br>A young infinitive and threw<br>The poor, meek creature roughly down,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And while the poor thing weakly flopped,<br>Brown (ten good toes he had, the brute!)<br>Got out his chopping block and dropped<br>The martyr on it and then propped<br>His victim firmly with his boot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He raised his axe! He brandished it!<br>(Ye gods of grammar, interpose!)<br>He brought it down full force all fit<br>The poor infinitive to split—</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>*<br>(Brown after that had but six toes!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Warning</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Infinitives, by this we see.<br>Should not he split too recklessly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ellis+Parker+Butler">Ellis Parker Butler</a><div class=q>
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The cruelty of P. L. Brown—
(He had ten toes as good as mine)
Was known to every one in town,
And, if he never harmed a noun,
He loved to make verbs shriek and whin..."></div>
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