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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384971" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballade Of The Mistletoe Bough</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am standing under the mistletoe,<br>And I smile, but no answering smile replies<br>For her haughty glance bids me plainly know<br>That not for me is the thing I prize;<br>Instead, from her coldly scornful eyes,<br>Indifference looks on my barefaced guile;<br>She knows, of course, what my act implies—<br>But look at those lips! Do they hint a smile?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stand here, eager, and beam and glow,<br>And she only looks a refined surprise<br>As clear and crisp and as cold as snow,<br>And as—Stop! I will never criticise!<br>I know what her cold glance signifies;<br>But I’ll stand just here as I am awhile<br>Till a smile to my pleading look replies—<br>But look at those lips! Do they hint a smile?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just look at those lips, now! I claim they show<br>A spirit unmeet under Christmas skies;<br>I claim that such lips on such maidens owe<br>A—something—the custom justifies;<br>I claim that the mistletoe rule applies<br>To her as well as the rank and file;<br>We should meet these things in a cheerful guise—<br>But look at those lips! Do they hint a smile?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">ENVOY</div><div style="margin:10px 0">These customs of Christmas may shock the wise,<br>And mistletoe boughs may be out of style,<br>And a kiss be a thing that all maids despise—<br>But look at those lips, do! They hint a smile!</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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And I smile, but no answering smile replies
For her haughty glance bids me plainly know
That not for me is the thing I prize;
Instead, from her coldly scornful eyes,
Indifference looks on my barefaced guile;
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