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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447680" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Knight's Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll tell thee everything I can:<br>There's little to relate.<br>I saw an aged aged man,<br>A-sitting on a gate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Who are you, aged man?' I said.<br>'And how is it you live?'<br>And his answer trickled through my head,<br>Like water through a sieve.<br>He said, 'I look for butterflies<br>That sleep among the wheat:<br>I make them into mutton-pies,<br>And sell them in the street.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sell them unto men,' he said,<br>'Who sail on stormy seas;<br>And that's the way I get my bread --<br>A trifle, if you please.'<br>But I was thinking of a plan<br>To dye one's whiskers green,<br>And always use so large a fan<br>That they could not be seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So having no reply to give<br>To what the old man said, I cried<br>'Come, tell me how you live!'<br>And thumped him on the head.<br>His accents mild took up the tale:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said 'I go my ways,<br>And when I find a mountain-rill,<br>I set it in a blaze;<br>And thence they make a stuff they call<br>Rowland's Macassar-Oil --<br>Yet twopence-halfpenny is all<br>They give me for my toil.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I was thinking of a way<br>To feed oneself on batter,<br>And so go on from day to day '<br>Getting a little fatter.<br>I shook him well from side to side,<br>Until his face was blue:<br>'Come, tell me how you live,' I cried,<br>'And what it is you do!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He said, 'I hunt for haddocks' eyes<br>Among the heather bright,<br>And work them into waistcoat-buttons<br>In the silent night.<br>And these I do not sell for gold<br>Or coin of silvery shine,<br>But for a copper halfpenny,<br>And that will purchase nine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I sometimes dig for buttered rolls,<br>Or set limed twigs for crabs:<br>I sometimes search the grassy knolls<br>For wheels of Hansom-cabs.<br>And that's the way' (he gave a wink)<br>'By which I get my wealth --<br>And very gladly will I drink<br>Your Honour's noble health.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I heard him then, for I had just<br>Completed my design<br>To keep the Menai bridge from rust<br>By boiling it in wine.<br>I thanked him much for telling me<br>The way he got his wealth,<br>But chiefly for his wish that he<br>Might drink my noble health.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now, if e'er by chance I put<br>My fingers into glue,<br>Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot<br>Into a left-hand shoe,<br>Or if I drop upon my toe<br>A very heavy weight,<br>I weep, for it reminds me so<br>Of that old man I used to know --<br>Whose look was mild, whose speech was slow<br>Whose hair was whiter than the snow,<br>Whose face was very like a crow,<br>With eyes, like cinders, all aglow,<br>Who seemed distracted with his woe,<br>Who rocked his body to and fro,<br>And muttered mumblingly and low,<br>As if his mouth were full of dough,<br>Who snorted like a buffalo-<br>That summer evening long ago,<br>A-sitting on a gate.</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>
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There's little to relate.
I saw an aged aged man,
A-sitting on a gate.

'Who are you, aged man?' I said.
'And how is it you live?'
And his answer trickled through my head,
Like water through a sieve.
He said, 'I lo..."></div>
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