<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390845" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad of the Jelly-Cake</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A little boy whose name was Tim<br> Once ate some jelly-cake for tea--<br>Which cake did not agree with him,<br> As by the sequel you shall see.<br>'My darling child,' his mother said,<br> 'Pray do not eat that jelly-cake,<br>For, after you have gone to bed,<br> I fear 't will make your stomach ache!'<br>But foolish little Tim demurred<br>Unto his mother's warning word.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That night, while all the household slept,<br> Tim felt an awful pain, and then<br>From out the dark a nightmare leapt<br> And stood upon his abdomen!<br>'I cannot breathe!' the infant cried--<br> 'Oh, Mrs. Nightmare, pity take!'<br>'There is no mercy,' she replied,<br> 'For boys who feast on jelly-cake!'<br>And so, despite the moans of Tim,<br>The cruel nightmare went for him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At first, she 'd tickle Timmy's toes<br> Or roughly smite his baby cheek--<br>And now she 'd rudely tweak his nose<br> And other petty vengeance wreak;<br>And then, with hobnails in her shoes<br> And her two horrid eyes aflame,<br>The mare proceeded to amuse,<br> Herself by prancing o'er his frame--<br>First to his throbbing brow, and then<br>Back to his little feet again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At last, fantastic, wild, and weird,<br> And clad in garments ghastly grim,<br>A scowling hoodoo band appeared<br> And joined in worrying little Tim.<br>Each member of this hoodoo horde<br> Surrounded Tim with fierce ado<br>And with long, cruel gimlets bored<br> His aching system through and through,<br>And while they labored all night long<br>The nightmare neighed a dismal song.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next morning, looking pale and wild,<br> Poor little Tim emerged from bed--<br>'Good gracious! what can ail the child!'<br> His agitated mother said.<br>'We live to learn,' responded he,<br> 'And I have lived to learn to take<br>Plain bread and butter for my tea,<br> And never, never, jelly-cake!<br>For when my hulk with pastry teems,<br>I must expect unpleasant dreams!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</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=390845" data-title="Ballad of the Jelly-Cake de Eugene Field" data-description="A little boy whose name was Tim Once ate some jelly-cake for tea-- Which cake did not agree with him, As by the sequel you shall see. 'My darling child,' his mother said, 'Pray do not eat that jelly-cake, For, after you have gone to bed, I fea..."></div> </div> </div>

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