<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412480" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Surprise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As there I left the road in May,<br>And took my way along a ground,<br>I found a glade with girls at play,<br>By leafy boughs close-hemmed around,<br>And there, with stores of harmless joys,<br>They plied their tongues, in merry noise:<br>Though little did they seem to fear<br>So queer a stranger might be near;<br>Teeh-hee! Look here! Hah! ha! Look there!<br>And oh! so playsome, oh! so fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And one would dance as one would spring,<br>Or bob or bow with leering smiles,<br>And one would swing, or sit and sing,<br>Or sew a stitch or two at whiles,<br>And one skipped on with downcast face,<br>All heedless, to my very place,<br>And there, in fright, with one foot out,<br>Made one dead step and turned about.<br>Heeh, hee, oh! oh! ooh! oo!—Look there!<br>And oh! so playsome, oh! so fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Away they scampered all, full speed,<br>By boughs that swung along their track,<br>As rabbits out of wood at feed,<br>At sight of men all scamper back.<br>And one pulled on behind her heel,<br>A thread of cotton, off her reel,<br>And oh! to follow that white clue,<br>I felt I fain could scamper too.<br>Teeh, hee, run here. Eeh! ee! Look there!<br>And oh! so playsome, oh! so fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ingeborg+Bachmann">Ingeborg Bachmann</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=412480" data-title="The Surprise de Ingeborg Bachmann" data-description="As there I left the road in May, And took my way along a ground, I found a glade with girls at play, By leafy boughs close-hemmed around, And there, with stores of harmless joys, They plied their tongues, in merry noise: Though little did they see..."></div> </div> </div>

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