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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447667" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Phantasmagoria CANTO V ( Byckerment )</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?"<br>I said. "They should, by rights,<br>Give them a chance - because, you know,<br>The tastes of people differ so,<br>Especially in Sprites." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Phantom shook his head and smiled.<br>"Consult them? Not a bit!<br>'Twould be a job to drive one wild,<br>To satisfy one single child -<br>There'd be no end to it!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Of course you can't leave CHILDREN free,"<br>Said I, "to pick and choose:<br>But, in the case of men like me,<br>I think 'Mine Host' might fairly be<br>Allowed to state his views." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said "It really wouldn't pay -<br>Folk are so full of fancies.<br>We visit for a single day,<br>And whether then we go, or stay,<br>Depends on circumstances. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And, though we don't consult 'Mine Host'<br>Before the thing's arranged,<br>Still, if he often quits his post,<br>Or is not a well-mannered Ghost,<br>Then you can have him changed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"But if the host's a man like you -<br>I mean a man of sense;<br>And if the house is not too new - "<br>"Why, what has THAT," said I, "to do<br>With Ghost's convenience?" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"A new house does not suit, you know -<br>It's such a job to trim it:<br>But, after twenty years or so,<br>The wainscotings begin to go,<br>So twenty is the limit." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"To trim" was not a phrase I could<br>Remember having heard:<br>"Perhaps," I said, "you'll be so good<br>As tell me what is understood<br>Exactly by that word?" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"It means the loosening all the doors,"<br>The Ghost replied, and laughed:<br>"It means the drilling holes by scores<br>In all the skirting-boards and floors,<br>To make a thorough draught. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"You'll sometimes find that one or two<br>Are all you really need<br>To let the wind come whistling through -<br>But HERE there'll be a lot to do!"<br>I faintly gasped "Indeed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"If I 'd been rather later, I'll<br>Be bound," I added, trying<br>(Most unsuccessfully) to smile,<br>"You'd have been busy all this while,<br>Trimming and beautifying?" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Why, no," said he; "perhaps I should<br>Have stayed another minute -<br>But still no Ghost, that's any good,<br>Without an introduction would<br>Have ventured to begin it. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The proper thing, as you were late,<br>Was certainly to go:<br>But, with the roads in such a state,<br>I got the Knight-Mayor's leave to wait<br>For half an hour or so." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Who's the Knight-Mayor?" I cried. Instead<br>Of answering my question,<br>"Well, if you don't know THAT," he said,<br>"Either you never go to bed,<br>Or you've a grand digestion! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"He goes about and sits on folk<br>That eat too much at night:<br>His duties are to pinch, and poke,<br>And squeeze them till they nearly choke."<br>(I said "It serves them right!") </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And folk who sup on things like these - "<br>He muttered, "eggs and bacon -<br>Lobster - and duck - and toasted cheese -<br>If they don't get an awful squeeze,<br>I'm very much mistaken! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"He is immensely fat, and so<br>Well suits the occupation:<br>In point of fact, if you must know,<br>We used to call him years ago,<br>THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"The day he was elected Mayor<br>I KNOW that every Sprite meant<br>To vote for ME, but did not dare -<br>He was so frantic with despair<br>And furious with excitement. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"When it was over, for a whim,<br>He ran to tell the King;<br>And being the reverse of slim,<br>A two-mile trot was not for him<br>A very easy thing. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"So, to reward him for his run<br>(As it was baking hot,<br>And he was over twenty stone),<br>The King proceeded, half in fun,<br>To knight him on the spot." </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"'Twas a great liberty to take!"<br>(I fired up like a rocket).<br>"He did it just for punning's sake:<br>'The man,' says Johnson, 'that would make<br>A pun, would pick a pocket!'" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"A man," said he, "is not a King."<br>I argued for a while,<br>And did my best to prove the thing -<br>The Phantom merely listening<br>With a contemptuous smile. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">At last, when, breath and patience spent,<br>I had recourse to smoking -<br>"Your AIM," he said, "is excellent:<br>But - when you call it ARGUMENT -<br>Of course you're only joking?" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stung by his cold and snaky eye,<br>I roused myself at length<br>To say "At least I do defy<br>The veriest sceptic to deny<br>That union is strength!" </div><div style="margin:10px 0">"That's true enough," said he, "yet stay - "<br>I listened in all meekness -<br>"UNION is strength, I'm bound to say;<br>In fact, the thing's as clear as day;<br>But ONIONS are a weakness."</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=447667" data-title="Phantasmagoria CANTO V ( Byckerment ) de Lewis Carroll" data-description=""DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" 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