<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508449" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mary Ellen</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's mighty quiet in the house<br> Since Mary Ellen quit me cold;<br>I've swept the hearth and fed the mouse<br> That's getting fat and overbold.<br>I've bought a pig's foot for the pot<br> And soon I'll set the fire alight;<br>Then I may eat or I may not,<br> Depends upon my appetite.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since Mary Ellen left me lone<br> I haven't earned a bloody bob.<br>I sit and sigh, and mope and moan,<br> And bellyache I quit my job.<br>My money's mostly gone,--I think<br> I ought to save it up for food . . .<br>But no, I'll blow it in for drink,<br> Then do a bunk for good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watch my mouse his whiskers preen;<br> He watches me with wicked glee.<br>Today--oh God! It's years sixteen<br> Since Mary Ellen wed with me.<br>Oh how the dear girl hated vermin!<br> She left rat poison on the shelf . . .<br>Friend Mouse, your doom I new determine<br> Then--how about myself?</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=508449" data-title="Mary Ellen de Robert William Service" data-description="It's mighty quiet in the house Since Mary Ellen quit me cold; I've swept the hearth and fed the mouse That's getting fat and overbold. I've bought a pig's foot for the pot And soon I'll set the fire alight; Then I may eat or I may not, Depends..."></div> </div> </div>

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