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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408870" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Men Who Made Bad Matches</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis the song of many husbands, and you all must understand<br>That you cannot call me coward now that women rule the land;<br>I have written much for women, where I thought that they were right,<br>But the men who made bad matches claim a song from me to-night. <br>Oh, the men who made bad matches are of every tribe and clime,<br>And, if Adam was the first man, then they date from Adam’s time.<br>They shall live and they shall suffer, until married life is past,<br>And the last sad son of Adam stands alone—at peace at last. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, the men who made bad matches, and the Great Misunderstood,<br>Are through all the world a mighty and a silent brotherhood.<br>If a wife is discontented, every other woman knows—<br>But the men who made bad matches keep the cruel secret close. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You may say that you can tell them, by their clothing, if you will,<br>But a man may seem neglected, and his home be happy still.<br>You may tell by their assumption of conventional disguise—<br>But, the men who made bad matches, I can tell them by their eyes! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen them by the camp-fire, where a child’s voice never comes,<br>I have seen them by the fireside, in their seeming happy homes—<br>Seen their wives’ false arms go round them, and the kisses that were lies—<br>Oh, the men who made bad matches! I can tell them by their eyes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have seen them bad in prison—seen them sullen, seen them sad;<br>I have seen them (in the mad-house)—I have seen them raving mad.<br>Watched them fight the battle bravely, for the children’s sake alone,<br>Like a father who has wronged them, and who lives but to atone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But it’s cruel, oh! it’s cruel, for the husband and the wife,<br>Who have not one thought in common, and are yoked for weary life.<br>They must see it through and suffer, for the children they must rear—<br>Oh, the folk who made bad matches have a heavy cross to bear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is not a ray of comfort, in the future’s gloomy sky,<br>For the children of bad matches will make trouble by-and-bye.<br>And though second wives be angels, while the first wives were the worst,<br>No second wife yet wedded makes a man forget the first. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! the men who made bad matches think more often than we know,<br>Of the girls they should have married, in the glorious long ago,<br>And there’s many a wife and mother thinks with bitter pain to-day,<br>Of her giddy, silly girlhood, and the man she sent away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life is sad for men and women, but the thoughts are bitter sad<br>Of the girls we should have married, and the boys we should have had.<br>But we’ll part now with a handshake, if we cannot with a kiss,<br>And bad matches may be mended in a better world than this.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q>
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