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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409649" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 3. Interlude IV.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A pleasant and a winsome tale,'<br>The Student said, 'though somewhat pale<br>And quiet in its coloring, <br>As if it caught its tone and air<br>From the gray suits that Quakers wear;<br>Yet worthy of some German bard,<br>Hebel, or Voss, or Eberhard,<br>Who love of humble themes to sing,<br>In humble verse; but no more true<br>Than was the tale I told to you.'<br>The Theologian made reply,<br>And with some warmth, 'That I deny;<br>'T is no invention of my own,<br>But something well and widely known<br>To readers of a riper age,<br>Writ by the skilful hand that wrote<br>The Indian tale of Hobomok,<br>And Philothea's classic page.<br>I found it like a waif afloat<br>Or dulse uprooted from its rock,<br>On the swift tides that ebb and flow<br>In daily papers, and at flood<br>Bear freighted vessels to and fro,<br>But later, when the ebb is low,<br>Leave a long waste of sand and mud.'<br>'It matters little,' quoth the Jew;<br>'The cloak of truth is lined with lies,<br>Sayeth some proverb old and wise;<br>And Love is master of all arts,<br>And puts it into human hearts<br>The strangest things to say and do.'<br>And here the controversy closed<br>Abruptly, ere 't was well begun;<br>For the Sicilian interposed<br>With, 'Lordlings, listen, every one<br>That listen may, unto a tale<br>That 's merrier than the nightingale;<br>A tale that cannot boast, forsooth,<br>A single rag or shred of truth;<br>That does not leave the mind in doubt<br>As to the with it or without;<br>A naked falsehood and absurd<br>As mortal ever told or heard.<br>Therefore I tell it; or, maybe,<br>Simply because it pleases me.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q>
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The Student said, 'though somewhat pale
And quiet in its coloring, 
As if it caught its tone and air
From the gray suits that Quakers wear;
Yet worthy of some German bard,
Hebel, or Voss, or Eberhard,
Who love of h..."></div>
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