<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386626" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When George Was King</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cards, and swords, and a lady's love,<br>That is a tale worth reading,<br>An insult veiled, a downcast glove,<br>And rapiers leap unheeding.<br>And 'tis O! for the brawl,<br>The thrust, the fall,<br>And the foe at your feet a-bleeding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tales of revel at wayside inns,<br>The goblets gaily filling,<br>Braggarts boasting a thousand sins,<br>Though none can boast a shilling.<br>And 'tis O! for the wine,<br>The frothing stein,<br>And the clamour of cups a-spilling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tales of maidens in rich brocade,<br>Powder and puff and patches,<br>Gallants lilting a serenade<br>Of old-time trolls and catches.<br>And 'tis O! for the lips<br>And the finger tips,<br>And the kiss that the boldest snatches.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tales of buckle and big rosette,<br>The slender shoe adorning,<br>Of curtseying through the minuet<br>With laughter, love, or scorning.<br>And 'tis O! for the shout<br>Of the roustabout,<br>As he hies him home in the morning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cards and swords, and a lady's love,<br>Give to the tale God-speeding,<br>War and wassail, and perfumed glove,<br>And all that's rare in reading.<br>And 'tis O! for the ways<br>Of the olden days,<br>And a life that was worth the leading.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Emily+Pauline+Johnson">Emily Pauline Johnson</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=386626" data-title="When George Was King de Emily Pauline Johnson" data-description="Cards, and swords, and a lady's love, That is a tale worth reading, An insult veiled, a downcast glove, And rapiers leap unheeding. And 'tis O! for the brawl, The thrust, the fall, And the foe at your feet a-bleeding. Tales of revel at wayside in..."></div> </div> </div>

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