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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391038" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The straw parlor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Way up at the top of a big stack of straw<br>Was the cunningest parlor that ever you saw!<br>And there could you lie when aweary of play<br>And gossip or laze in the coziest way;<br>No matter how careworn or sorry one's mood<br>No worldly distraction presumed to intrude.<br>As a refuge from onerous mundane ado<br>I think I approve of straw parlors, don't you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A swallow with jewels aflame on her breast<br>On that straw parlor's ceiling had builded her nest;<br>And she flew in and out all the happy day long,<br>And twittered the soothingest lullaby song.<br>Now some might suppose that that beautiful bird<br>Performed for her babies the music they heard;<br>I reckon she twittered her répertoire through<br>For the folk in the little straw parlor, don't you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And down from a rafter a spider had hung<br>Some swings upon which he incessantly swung.<br>He cut up such didoes--such antics he played<br>Way up in the air, and was never afraid!<br>He never made use of his horrid old sting,<br>But was just upon earth for the fun of the thing!<br>I deeply regret to observe that so few<br>Of these good-natured insects are met with, don't you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, down in the strawstack, a wee little mite<br>Of a cricket went chirping by day and by night;<br>And further down, still, a cunning blue mouse<br>In a snug little nook of that strawstack kept house!<br>When the cricket went &quot;chirp,&quot; Miss Mousie would squeak<br>&quot;Come in,&quot; and a blush would enkindle her cheek!<br>She thought--silly girl! 't was a beau come to woo,<br>But I guess it was only the cricket, don't you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the cricket, the mouse, and the motherly bird<br>Made as soothingsome music as ever you heard<br>And, meanwhile, that spider by means of his swings<br>Achieved most astounding gyrations and things!<br>No wonder the little folk liked what they saw<br>And loved what they heard in that parlor of straw!<br>With the mercury up to 102<br>In the shade, I opine they just sizzled, don't you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But once there invaded that Eden of straw<br>The evilest Feline that ever you saw!<br>She pounced on that cricket with rare promptitude<br>And she tucked him away where he'd do the most good;<br>And then, reaching down to the nethermost house,<br>She deftly expiscated little Miss Mouse!<br>And, as for the Swallow, she shrieked and withdrew--<br>I rather admire her discretion, don't you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now listen: That evening a cyclone obtained,<br>And the mortgage was all on that farm that remained!<br>Barn, strawstack and spider--they all blew away,<br>And nobody knows where they're at to this day!<br>And, as for the little straw parlor, I fear<br>It was wafted clean off this sublunary sphere!<br>I really incline to a hearty &quot;boo-hoo&quot;<br>When I think of this tragical ending, don't you?</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>
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Was the cunningest parlor that ever you saw!
And there could you lie when aweary of play
And gossip or laze in the coziest way;
No matter how careworn or sorry one's mood
No worldly distraction presumed to..."></div>
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