<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384962" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Outbid</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Cupid held an auction sale,<br>I hastened to his mart,<br>For I had heard that he would sell<br>The blue-eyed Dora’s heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I brought a wealth of truest love,<br>The most that I could proffer,<br>Because, forsooth, of stocks or bonds<br>I had not one to offer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Cupid offered Dora’s heart,<br>I bid my whole heart’s love,<br>A love that reached from sea to sea<br>And to the sky above;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And When Sir Cupid called for more,<br>I bid my hands and life,<br>That should be hers for servitude<br>If she became my wife.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then 'Going! going!' Cupid cried;<br>The silence was intense<br>Until old Goldbags said, 'I bid<br>My stocks and four per cents!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Cupid cried, 'Fair Dora’s heart,<br>That ne’er was sold before!<br>Does anybody raise the bid?<br>Will any offer more?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'If not—,' but Count Decrepit rose,<br>Infirm, decayed and slim;<br>'I hid my title!' and her heart<br>Was there knocked down to him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well! titles may be more than love!<br>I shall not rant nor rail;<br>For after all I much prefer<br>Some heart that’s not for sale!</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> <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=384962" data-title="Outbid de Ellis Parker Butler" data-description="When Cupid held an auction sale, I hastened to his mart, For I had heard that he would sell The blue-eyed Dora’s heart. I brought a wealth of truest love, The most that I could proffer, Because, forsooth, of stocks or bonds I had not one to off..."></div> </div> </div>

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