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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510740" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Delilah</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have another viceroy now, -- those days are dead and done<br>Of Delilah Aberyswith and depraved Ulysses Gunne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Delilah Aberyswith was a lady -- not too young --<br>With a perfect taste in dresses and a badly-bitted tongue,<br>With a thirst for information, and a greater thirst for praise,<br>And a little house in Simla in the Prehistoric Days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By reason of her marriage to a gentleman in power,<br>Delilah was acquainted with the gossip of the hour;<br>And many little secrets, of the half-official kind,<br>Were whispered to Delilah, and she bore them all in mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She patronized extensively a man, Ulysses Gunne,<br>Whose mode of earning money was a low and shameful one.<br>He wrote for certain papers, which, as everybody knows,<br>Is worse than serving in a shop or scaring off the crows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He praised her &quot;queenly beauty&quot; first; and, later on, he hinted<br>At the &quot;vastness of her intellect&quot; with compliment unstinted.<br>He went with her a-riding, and his love for her was such<br>That he lent her all his horses and -- she galled them very much.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day, THEY brewed a secret of a fine financial sort;<br>It related to Appointments, to a Man and a Report.<br>'Twas almost wortth the keeping, -- only seven people knew it --<br>And Gunne rose up to seek the truth and patiently ensue it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a Viceroy's Secret, but -- perhaps the wine was red --<br>Perhaps an Aged Concillor had lost his aged head --<br>Perhaps Delilah's eyes were bright -- Delilah's whispers sweet --<br>The Aged Member told her what 'twere treason to repeat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ulysses went a-riding, and they talked of love and flowers;<br>Ulysses went a-calling, and he called for several hours;<br>Ulysses went a-waltzing, and Delilah helped him dance --<br>Ulysses let the waltzes go, and waited for his chance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The summer sun was setting, and the summer air was still,<br>The couple went a-walking in the shade of Summer Hill.<br>The wasteful sunset faded out in turkis-green and gold,<br>Ulysses pleaded softly, and . . . that bad Delilah told!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next morn, a startled Empire learnt the all-important news;<br>Next week, the Aged Councillor was shaking in his shoes.<br>Next month, I met Delilah and she did not show the least<br>Hesitation in affirming that Ulysses was a &quot;beast.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have another Viceroy now, those days are dead and done --<br>Off, Delilah Aberyswith and most mean Ulysses Gunne!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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