<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410124" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rebecca</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A trick that everyone abhors<br>In little girls is slamming doors.<br>A wealthy banker's little daughter<br>Who lived in Palace Green, Bayswater<br>(By name Rebecca Offendort),<br>Was given to this furious sport.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She would deliberately go<br>And slam the door like billy-o!<br>To make her uncle Jacob start.<br>She was not really bad at heart,<br>But only rather rude and wild;<br>She was an aggravating child...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It happened that a marble bust<br>Of Abraham was standing just<br>Above the door this little lamb<br>Had carefully prepared to slam,<br>And down it came! It knocked her flat!<br>It laid her out! She looked like that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her funeral sermon (which was long<br>And followed by a sacred song)<br>Mentioned her virtues, it is true,<br>But dwelt upon her vices too,<br>And showed the deadful end of one<br>Who goes and slams the door for fun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The children who were brought to hear<br>The awful tale from far and near<br>Were much impressed, and inly swore<br>They never more would slam the door,<br>-- As often they had done before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Hilaire+Belloc">Hilaire Belloc</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=410124" data-title="Rebecca de Hilaire Belloc" data-description="Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably A trick that everyone abhors In little girls is slamming doors. A wealthy banker's little daughter Who lived in Palace Green, Bayswater (By name Rebecca Offendort), Was given to this furious sport...."></div> </div> </div>

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