<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416778" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Circus-Day Parade</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, the Circus-Day parade! How the bugles played and played!<br>And how the glossy horses tossed their flossy manes, and neighed,<br>As the rattle and the rhyme of the tenor-drummer's time<br>Filled all the hungry hearts of us with melody sublime!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How the grand band-wagon shone with a splendor all its own,<br>And glittered with a glory that our dreams had never known!<br>And how the boys behind, high and low of every kind,<br>Marched in unconscious capture, with a rapture undefined!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How the horsemen, two and two, with their plumes of white and blue,<br>And crimson, gold and purple, nodding by at me and you.<br>Waved the banners that they bore, as the Knights in days of yore,<br>Till our glad eyes gleamed and glistened like the spangles that they wore!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How the graceless-graceful stride of the elephant was eyed,<br>And the capers of the little horse that cantered at his side!<br>How the shambling camels, tame to the plaudits of their fame,<br>With listless eyes came silent, masticating as they came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How the cages jolted past, with each wagon battened fast,<br>And the mystery within it only hinted of at last<br>From the little grated square in the rear, and nosing there<br>The snout of some strange animal that sniffed the outer air!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, last of all, The Clown, making mirth for all the town,<br>With his lips curved ever upward and his eyebrows ever down,<br>And his chief attention paid to the little mule that played<br>A tattoo on the dashboard with his heels, in the parade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! the Circus-Day parade! How the bugles played and played!<br>And how the glossy horses tossed their flossy manes and neighed.<br>As the rattle and the rhyme of the tenor-drummer's time<br>Filled all the hungry hearts of us with melody sublime!</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=416778" data-title="The Circus-Day Parade de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Oh, the Circus-Day parade! How the bugles played and played! And how the glossy horses tossed their flossy manes, and neighed, As the rattle and the rhyme of the tenor-drummer's time Filled all the hungry hearts of us with melody sublime! How the..."></div> </div> </div>

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