<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390694" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Visiting Aunts</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is a memory from my childhood, when I was about Nine years old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The visiting Aunts have come through the door, <br>They haven't been here for six months or more, <br>Their presence is such an incredible bore, <br>Well I think so! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The visiting Aunts are so out of date, <br>I soon noticed that when they came through the gate, <br>Their dresses date back to nineteen-o-eight, <br>Well I think so! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The visiting Aunts have kisses that smother, <br>With whiskery chins as one will discover, <br>Each one is just as bad as the other, <br>Well I think so! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The visiting Aunts look all around our place, <br>Tutting and waving their hands, so the lace<br>Which encircles their wrists shakes a pace, <br>Why don't they go! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The visiting Aunts are staying to tea, <br>They're both very fat and will eat more than me, <br>There'll be nothing left, just you wait and see, <br>I told you so! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The visiting Aunts they gossip away, <br>About this and that and 'not in our day', <br>They never will listen to what others say, <br>I really feel low! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The visiting Aunts say it's a disgrace, <br>The way I'm allowed to get dirt on my face, <br>And go running around with an undone shoelace, <br>Well, I can't tie a bow! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The visiting Aunts have had 'forty winks', <br>Mother had said they will go soon, she thinks, <br>They're both motionless like a couple of sphinx, <br>Why don't they go! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The visiting Aunts are off down the lane, <br>Thank goodness they've gone now, they're really a pain, .<br>I hope that they never visit again, <br>Please, days go slow! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ernestine+Northover">Ernestine Northover</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=390694" data-title="The Visiting Aunts de Ernestine Northover" data-description="This is a memory from my childhood, when I was about Nine years old. The visiting Aunts have come through the door, They haven't been here for six months or more, Their presence is such an incredible bore, Well I think so! The visiting Aunts..."></div> </div> </div>

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