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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384969" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballad Of A Bachelor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Listen, ladies, while I sing<br>The ballad of John Henry King.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">John Henry was a bachelor,<br>His age was thirty-three or four.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two maids for his affection vied,<br>And each desired to be his bride,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And bravely did they strive to bring<br>Unto their feet John Henry King.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">John Henry liked them both so well,<br>To save his life he could not tell</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which he most wished to be his bride,<br>Nor was he able to decide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair Kate was jolly, bright, and gay,<br>And sunny as a summer day;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Marie was kind, sedate, and sweet,<br>With gentle ways and manners neat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each was so dear that John confessed<br>He could not tell which he liked best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He studied them for quite a year,<br>And still found no solution near,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And might have studied two years more<br>Had he not, walking on the shore,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Conceived a very simple way<br>Of ending his prolonged delay--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A way in which he might decide<br>Which of the maids should be his bride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said, &quot;I'll toss into the air<br>A dollar, and I'll toss it fair;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If heads come up, I'll wed Marie;<br>If tails, fair Kate my bride shall be.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then from his leather pocket-book<br>A dollar bright and new he took;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He kissed one side for fair Marie,<br>The other side for Kate kissed he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then in a manner free and fair<br>He tossed the dollar in the air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Ye fates,&quot; he cried, &quot;pray let this be<br>A lucky throw indeed for me!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The dollar rose, the dollar fell;<br>He watched its whirling transit well,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And off some twenty yards or more<br>The dollar fell upon the shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">John Henry ran to where it struck<br>To see which maiden was in luck.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, oh, the irony of fate!<br>Upon its edge the coin stood straight!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there, embedded in the sand,<br>John Henry let the dollar stand!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he will tempt his fate no more,<br>But live and die a bachelor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus, ladies, you have heard me sing<br>The ballad of John Henry King.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Submitted by John Martin</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 ballad of John Henry King.

John Henry was a bachelor,
His age was thirty-three or four.

Two maids for his affection vied,
And each desired to be his bride,

And bravely did they strive to bring
Unto their feet Jo..."></div>
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