<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416762" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ancient Printman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O Printerman of sallow face,<br>And look of absent guile,<br>Is it the 'copy' on your 'case'<br>That causes you to smile?<br>Or is it some old treasure scrap<br>You cull from Memory's file?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I fain would guess its mystery--<br>For often I can trace<br>A fellow dreamer's history<br>Whene'er it haunts the face;<br>Your fancy's running riot<br>In a retrospective race!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Ah, Printerman, you're straying<br>Afar from 'stick' and type--<br>Your heart has 'gone a-maying,'<br>And you taste old kisses, ripe<br>Again on lips that pucker<br>At your old asthmatic pipe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You are dreaming of old pleasures<br>That have faded from your view;<br>And the music-burdened measures<br>Of the laughs you listen to<br>Are now but angel-echoes--<br>O, have I spoken true?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ancient Printer hinted<br>With a motion full of grace<br>To where the words were printed<br>On a card above his 'case,'--<br>'I am deaf and dumb!' I left him<br>With a smile upon his face.</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=416762" data-title="The Ancient Printman de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="'O Printerman of sallow face, And look of absent guile, Is it the 'copy' on your 'case' That causes you to smile? Or is it some old treasure scrap You cull from Memory's file? 'I fain would guess its mystery-- For often I can trace A fellow dream..."></div> </div> </div>

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