<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508551" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Tom</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The harridan who holds the inn<br> At which I toss a pot,<br>Is old and uglier than sin,--<br> I'm glad she knows me not.<br>Indeed, for me it's hard to think,<br> Although my pow's like snow,<br>She was the lass so fresh and pink<br> I courted long ago.<br> <br>I wronged her, yet it's sadly true<br> She wanted to be wronged:<br>They mostly do, although 'tis you,<br> The male bloke who is thonged.<br>Well, anyway I left her then<br> To sail across the sea,<br>And no doubt she had other men,<br> And soon lost sight of me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So now she is a paunchy dame<br> And mistress of the inn,<br>With temper tart and tounge to blame,<br> Moustache and triple chin.<br>And though I have no proper home<br> Contentedly I purr,<br>And from my whiskers wipe the foam,<br> --Glad I did not wed her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet it's so funny sitting here<br> To stare into her face;<br>And as I raise my mug of beer<br> I dream of our disgrace.<br>And so I come and come each day<br> To more and more enjoy<br>The joke--that fifty years away<br> I was her honey boy.</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=508551" data-title="Old Tom de Robert William Service" data-description="The harridan who holds the inn At which I toss a pot, Is old and uglier than sin,-- I'm glad she knows me not. Indeed, for me it's hard to think, Although my pow's like snow, She was the lass so fresh and pink I courted long ago. I wronged h..."></div> </div> </div>

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