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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416706" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Jolly Friend's Secret</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, friend of mine, how goes it,<br>Since you've taken you a mate?--<br>Your smile, though, plainly shows it<br>Is a very happy state!<br>Dan Cupid's necromancy!<br>You must sit you down and dine,<br>And lubricate your fancy<br>With a glass or two of wine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as you have 'deserted,'<br>As my other chums have done,<br>While I laugh alone diverted,<br>As you drop off one by one--<br>And I've remained unwedded,<br>Till--you see--look here--that I'm,<br>In a manner, 'snatched bald-headed'<br>By the sportive hand of Time!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm an 'old 'un!' yes, but wrinkles<br>Are not so plenty, quite,<br>As to cover up the twinkles<br>Of the BOY--ain't I right?<br>Yet, there are ghosts of kisses<br>Under this mustache of mine<br>My mem'ry only misses<br>When I drown 'em out with wine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From acknowledgment so ample,<br>You would hardly take me for<br>What I am--a perfect sample<br>Of a 'jolly bachelor';<br>Not a bachelor has being<br>When he laughs at married life<br>But his heart and soul's agreeing<br>That he ought to have a wife!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, ha I old chum, this claret,<br>Like Fatima, holds the key<br>Of the old Blue-Beardish garret<br>Of my hidden mystery!<br>Did you say you'd like to listen?<br>Ah, my boy! the 'SAD NO MORE!'<br>And the tear-drops that will glisten--<br>TURN THE CATCH UPON THE DOOR,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And sit you down beside me,<br>And put yourself at ease--<br>I'll trouble you to slide me<br>That wine decanter, please;<br>The path is kind o' mazy<br>Where my fancies have to go,<br>And my heart gets sort o' lazy<br>On the journey--don't you know?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let me see--when I was twenty--<br>It's a lordly age, my boy,<br>When a fellow's money's plenty,<br>And the leisure to enjoy--<br>And a girl--with hair as golden<br>As--THAT; and lips--well--quite<br>As red as THIS I'm holdin'<br>Between you and the light.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And eyes and a complexion--<br>Ah, heavens!--le'-me-see--<br>Well,--just in this connection,--<br>DID YOU LOCK THAT DOOR FOR ME?<br>Did I start in recitation<br>My past life to recall?<br>Well, THAT'S an indication<br>I am purty tight--that's all!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a><div class=q>
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Since you've taken you a mate?--
Your smile, though, plainly shows it
Is a very happy state!
Dan Cupid's necromancy!
You must sit you down and dine,
And lubricate your fancy
With a glass or two of wine.

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