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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447664" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Phantasmagoria CANTO II ( Hys Fyve Rules )</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">"MY First - but don't suppose," he said,<br>"I'm setting you a riddle -<br>Is - if your Victim be in bed,<br>Don't touch the curtains at his head,<br>But take them in the middle, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And wave them slowly in and out,<br>While drawing them asunder;<br>And in a minute's time, no doubt,<br>He'll raise his head and look about<br>With eyes of wrath and wonder. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And here you must on no pretence<br>Make the first observation.<br>Wait for the Victim to commence:<br>No Ghost of any common sense<br>Begins a conversation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"If he should say 'HOW CAME YOU HERE?'<br>(The way that YOU began, Sir,)<br>In such a case your course is clear -<br>'ON THE BAT'S BACK, MY LITTLE DEAR!'<br>Is the appropriate answer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"If after this he says no more,<br>You'd best perhaps curtail your<br>Exertions - go and shake the door,<br>And then, if he begins to snore,<br>You'll know the thing's a failure. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"By day, if he should be alone -<br>At home or on a walk -<br>You merely give a hollow groan,<br>To indicate the kind of tone<br>In which you mean to talk. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"But if you find him with his friends,<br>The thing is rather harder.<br>In such a case success depends<br>On picking up some candle-ends,<br>Or butter, in the larder. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"With this you make a kind of slide<br>(It answers best with suet),<br>On which you must contrive to glide,<br>And swing yourself from side to side -<br>One soon learns how to do it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The Second tells us what is right<br>In ceremonious calls:-<br>'FIRST BURN A BLUE OR CRIMSON LIGHT'<br>(A thing I quite forgot to-night),<br>'THEN SCRATCH THE DOOR OR WALLS.'" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said "You'll visit HERE no more,<br>If you attempt the Guy.<br>I'll have no bonfires on MY floor -<br>And, as for scratching at the door,<br>I'd like to see you try!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The Third was written to protect<br>The interests of the Victim,<br>And tells us, as I recollect,<br>TO TREAT HIM WITH A GRAVE RESPECT,<br>AND NOT TO CONTRADICT HIM." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"That's plain," said I, "as Tare and Tret,<br>To any comprehension:<br>I only wish SOME Ghosts I've met<br>Would not so CONSTANTLY forget<br>The maxim that you mention!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Perhaps," he said, "YOU first transgressed<br>The laws of hospitality:<br>All Ghosts instinctively detest<br>The Man that fails to treat his guest<br>With proper cordiality. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"If you address a Ghost as 'Thing!'<br>Or strike him with a hatchet,<br>He is permitted by the King<br>To drop all FORMAL parleying -<br>And then you're SURE to catch it! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The Fourth prohibits trespassing<br>Where other Ghosts are quartered:<br>And those convicted of the thing<br>(Unless when pardoned by the King)<br>Must instantly be slaughtered. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"That simply means 'be cut up small':<br>Ghosts soon unite anew.<br>The process scarcely hurts at all -<br>Not more than when YOU're what you call<br>'Cut up' by a Review. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The Fifth is one you may prefer<br>That I should quote entire:-<br>THE KING MUST BE ADDRESSED AS 'SIR.'<br>THIS, FROM A SIMPLE COURTIER,<br>IS ALL THE LAWS REQUIRE: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"BUT, SHOULD YOU WISH TO DO THE THING<br>WITH OUT-AND-OUT POLITENESS,<br>ACCOST HIM AS 'MY GOBLIN KING!<br>AND ALWAYS USE, IN ANSWERING,<br>THE PHRASE 'YOUR ROYAL WHITENESS!' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear,<br>After so much reciting :<br>So, if you don't object, my dear,<br>We'll try a glass of bitter beer -<br>I think it looks inviting."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lewis+Carroll">Lewis Carroll</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=447664" data-title="Phantasmagoria CANTO II ( Hys Fyve Rules ) de Lewis Carroll" data-description=""MY First - but don't suppose," he said, "I'm setting you a riddle - Is - if your Victim be in bed, Don't touch the curtains at his head, But take them in the middle, "And wave them slowly in and out, While drawing them asund..."></div> </div> </div>
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