<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416720" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Man's Nursery Rhyme</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the jolly winters<br>Of the long-ago,<br>It was not so cold as now--<br>O! No! No!<br>Then, as I remember,<br>Snowballs, to eat,<br>Were as good as apples now,<br>And every bit as sweet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the jolly winters<br>Of the dead-and-gone,<br>Bub was warm as summer,<br>With his red mitts on,--<br>Just in his little waist-<br>And-pants all together,<br>Who ever heard him growl<br>About cold weather?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the jolly winters of the long-ago--<br>Was it _half_ so cold as now?<br>O! No! No!<br>Who caught his death o' cold,<br>Making prints of men<br>Flat-backed in snow that now's<br>Twice as cold again?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the jolly winters<br>Of the dead-and-gone,<br>Startin' out rabbit-hunting<br>Early as the dawn,--<br>Who ever froze his fingers,<br>Ears, heels, or toes,--<br>Or'd a cared if he had?<br>Nobody knows!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nights by the kitchen-stove,<br>Shelling white and red<br>Corn in the skillet, and<br>Sleepin' four abed!<br>Ah! the jolly winters<br>Of the long-ago!<br>We were not so old as now--<br>O! No! No!</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> <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=416720" data-title="Old Man's Nursery Rhyme de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="I. In the jolly winters Of the long-ago, It was not so cold as now-- O! No! No! Then, as I remember, Snowballs, to eat, Were as good as apples now, And every bit as sweet! II. In the jolly winters Of the dead-and-gone, Bub was warm as summer, W..."></div> </div> </div>

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