<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508381" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Horatio</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His portrait hung upon the wall.<br> Oh how at us he used to stare.<br>Each Sunday when I made my call! --<br> And when one day it wasn't there,<br>Quite quick I seemed to understand<br> The light was green to hold her hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her eyes were amorously lit;<br> I knew she wouldn't mind at all.<br>Yet what I did was sit and sit<br> Seeing that blankness on the wall . . .<br>Horatio had a gentle face,--<br> How would my mug look in his place?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That oblong of wall-paper wan!<br> And while she prattled prettily<br>I sensed the red light going on,<br> So I refused a cup of tea,<br>And took my gold-topped cane and hat--<br> My going seemed to leave her flat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Horatio was a decent guy,<br> And when she ravished from her heart<br>A damsite better man than I,<br> She seemed to me,--well, just a tart:<br>Her lack of tact I can't explain.<br> His picture,--is it hung again?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</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=508381" data-title="Horatio de Robert William Service" data-description="His portrait hung upon the wall. Oh how at us he used to stare. Each Sunday when I made my call! -- And when one day it wasn't there, Quite quick I seemed to understand The light was green to hold her hand. Her eyes were amorously lit; I knew..."></div> </div> </div>

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