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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447684" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Manlet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In stature the Manlet was dwarfish--<br>No burly, big Blunderbore he;<br>And he wearily gazed on the crawfish<br>His Wifelet had dressed for his tea.<br>'Now reach me, sweet Atom, my gunlet,<br>And hurl the old shoelet for luck;<br>Let me hie to the bank of the runlet,<br>And shoot thee a Duck!'<br> <br>She has reached him his minikin gunlet;<br>She has hurled the old shoelet for luck;<br>She is busily baking a bunlet,<br>To welcome him home with his Duck.<br>On he speeds, never wasting a wordlet,<br>Though thoughtlets cling, closely as wax,<br>To the spot where the beautiful birdlet<br>So quietly quacks.<br> <br>Where the Lobsterlet lurks, and the Crablet<br>So slowly and sleepily crawls;<br>Where the Dolphin's at home, and the Dablet<br>Pays long, ceremonious calls;<br>Where the Grublet is sought by the Froglet;<br>Where the Frog is pursued by the Duck;<br>Where the Ducklet is chased by the Doglet--<br>So runs the world's luck!<br> <br>He has loaded with bullet and powder;<br>His footfall is noiseless as air;<br>But the Voices grow louder and louder,<br>And bellow and bluster and blare.<br>They bristle before him and after,<br>They flutter above and below,<br>Shrill shriekings of lubberly laughter,<br>Weird wailings of woe!<br> <br>They echo without him, within him;<br>They thrill through his whiskers and beard;<br>Like a teetotum seeming to spin him,<br>With sneers never hitherto sneered.<br>'Avengement,' they cry, 'on our Foelet!<br>Let the Manikin weep for our wrongs!<br>Let us drench him, from toplet to toelet,<br>With Nursery Songs!<br> <br>'He shall muse upon 'Hey! Diddle! Diddle!'<br>On the Cow that surmounted the Moon;<br>He shall rave of the Cat and the Fiddle,<br>And the Dish that eloped with the Spoon;<br>And his soul shall be sad for the Spider,<br>When Miss Muffet was sipping her whey,<br>That so tenderly sat down beside her,<br>And scared her away!<br> <br>'The music of Midsummer madness<br>Shall sting him with many a bite,<br>Till, in rapture of rollicking sadness,<br>He shall groan with a gloomy delight;<br>He shall swathe him, like mists of the morning,<br>In platitudes luscious and limp,<br>Such as deck, with a deathless adorning,<br>The Song of the Shrimp!<br> <br>'When the Ducklet's dark doom is decided,<br>We will trundle him home in a trice;<br>And the banquet, so plainly provided,<br>Shall round into rose-buds and rice;<br>In a blaze of pragmatic invention<br>He shall wrestle with Fate, and shall reign;<br>But he has not a friend fit to mention,<br>So hit him again!'<br> <br>He has shot it, the delicate darling!<br>And the Voices have ceased from their strife;<br>Not a whisper of sneering or snarling,<br>As he carries it home to his wife;<br>Then, cheerily champing the bunlet<br>His spouse was so skilful to bake,<br>He hies him once more to the runlet<br>To fetch her the Drake!</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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No burly, big Blunderbore he;
And he wearily gazed on the crawfish
His Wifelet had dressed for his tea.
'Now reach me, sweet Atom, my gunlet,
And hurl the old shoelet for luck;
Let me hie to the bank of the run..."></div>
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