<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=472474" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines By A Clerk</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">OH! I did love her dearly,<br>And gave her toys and rings,<br>And I thought she meant sincerely,<br>When she took my pretty things.<br>But her heart has grown as icy<br>As a fountain in the fall,<br>And her love, that was so spicy,<br>It did not last at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I gave her once a locket,<br>It was filled with my own hair,<br>And she put it in her pocket<br>With very special care.<br>But a jeweller has got it,--<br>He offered it to me,--<br>And another that is not it<br>Around her neck I see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For my cooings and my billings<br>I do not now complain,<br>But my dollars and my shillings<br>Will never come again;<br>They were earned with toil and sorrow,<br>But I never told her that,<br>And now I have to borrow,<br>And want another hat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Think, think, thou cruel Emma,<br>When thou shalt hear my woe,<br>And know my sad dilemma,<br>That thou hast made it so.<br>See, see my beaver rusty,<br>Look, look upon this hole,<br>This coat is dim and dusty;<br>Oh let it rend thy soul!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the gates of fashion<br>I daily bent my knee,<br>But I sought the shrine of passion,<br>And found my idol,--thee.<br>Though never love intenser<br>Had bowed a soul before it,<br>Thine eye was on the censer,<br>And not the hand that bore it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Oliver+Wendell+Holmes">Oliver Wendell Holmes</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=472474" data-title="Lines By A Clerk de Oliver Wendell Holmes" data-description="OH! I did love her dearly, And gave her toys and rings, And I thought she meant sincerely, When she took my pretty things. But her heart has grown as icy As a fountain in the fall, And her love, that was so spicy, It did not last at all. I gave h..."></div> </div> </div>

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