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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408130" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tie the Knot Tightly</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Launching our from the ship--<br>ha, ha! courtship--<br>Oh the misty matrimonial sea,<br>Let the cable hang lightly,<br>but tie the knot tightly.&quot;<br>So the hoary sailors tell me.<br>As we are just launching our nuptial canoes,<br>Enroute for some haven, we know not what,<br>Old mariner' views<br>'twere wrong to refuse;<br>So oblige us with a workmanlike knot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And tie the knot tightly, good pastor!<br>Invent one that will not come loose;<br>For tho' sad, it is true that people slip thro',<br>Or squirm and wriggle out of the noose.<br>&quot;To love and to cherish&quot;<br>&quot;We will!&quot; they reply.<br>&quot;Till vital pow'rs perish&quot;<br>&quot;Of course, or course;<br>Until we di-- until we di--<br>Until we divorce.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With that ever firm cord--<br>ha, ha! concord--<br>We may reckon on a tie that will last<br>Till the joys and the sorrows<br>of earthly tomorrows<br>Lie forgotten in the grave of the Past.<br>But we are not convicts, so spare us that joke<br>Of &quot;welding the chain while the iron is hot;&quot;<br>And we are not oxen; so make us no yoke;<br>Just a good and honest old fashioned knot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If there must be a lock--<br>ha, ha! wedlock--<br>Hang the key up where it will not found;<br>Yet be sure and not loose it,<br>we may want to use it<br>When our jolly golden wedding comes round.<br>Tho's here's a stray husband, and ther's a stray wife,<br>Who once just as fondly combined their lot,<br>Determin'd are we on union for life,<br>And we want at least a fifty-year knot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I must lay off my hood--ha,ha! girlhood--<br>As I robe me in my bridal array;<br>I'm a little bit frightened!<br>my features thus whitened,<br>Pearly powder I'll dispense with today.<br>Yet, why should I tremble! He suits, to a T;<br>And I, so he tells me, suit him to a dot.<br>So, now, as you see our notions agree,<br>We will that you for a true-lover's knot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On attaining this age--ha, ha! marriage--<br>Single blessedness! I bid thee adieu;<br>While dividing each trouble,<br>my joys I shall double<br>If the half of what he tells me is true.<br>Though men are uncertain, take men as they go,<br>I'm bent on retaining the one I've got:<br>There's a proverb, you know--&quot;two strings to one beau;&quot;<br>So, suppose we try a double beau-knot!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Clay+Work">Henry Clay Work</a><div class=q>
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ha, ha! courtship--
Oh the misty matrimonial sea,
Let the cable hang lightly,
but tie the knot tightly.&quot;
So the hoary sailors tell me.
As we are just launching our nuptial canoes,
Enroute for some haven, we..."></div>
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