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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510908" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballad of Minepit Shaw</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">About the time that taverns shut<br>And men can buy no beer,<br>Two lads went up to the keepers' hut<br>To steal Lord Pelham's deer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Night and the liquor was in their heads--<br>They laughed and talked no bounds,<br>Till they waked the keepers on their beds<br>And the keepers loosed the hounds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They had killed a hart, they had killed a hind,<br>Ready to carry away,<br>When they heard a whimper down the wind<br>And they heard a bloodhound bay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They took and ran across the fern,<br>Their crossbows in their hand,<br>Till they met a man with a green lantern<br>That called and bade 'em stand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;What are ye doing, O Flesh and Blood,<br>And what's your foolish will,<br>That you must break into Minepit Wood<br>And wake the Folk of the Hill?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh, we've broke into Lord Pelham's park,<br>And killed Lord Pelham's deer,<br>And if ever you heard a little dog bark<br>You'll know why we come here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;We ask you let us go our way,<br>As fast as we can flee,<br>For if ever you heard a bloodhound bay<br>You'll know how pressed we be.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh, lay your crossbows on the bank<br>And drop the knives from your hand,<br>And though the hounds be at your flank<br>I'll save you where you stand!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They laid their crossbows on the bank,<br>They threw their knives in the wood,<br>And the ground before them opened and sank<br>And saved 'em where they stood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh, what's the roaring in our ears<br>That strikes us well-nigh dumb?&quot;<br>&quot;Oh, that is just how things appears<br>According as they come.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;What are the stars before our eyes<br>That strike us well-nigh blind?&quot;<br>&quot;Oh, that is just how things arise<br>According as you find.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;And why's our bed so hard to the bones<br>Excepting where it's cold?&quot;<br>&quot;Oh, that's because it is precious stones<br>Excepting where 'tis gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Think it over as you stand,<br>For I tell you without fail,<br>If you haven't got into Fairyland<br>You're not in Lewes Gaol.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All night long they thought of it,<br>And, come the dawn, they saw<br>They'd tumbled into a great old pit,<br>At the bottom of Minepit Shaw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the keeper's hound had followed 'em close,<br>And broke her neck in the fall;<br>So they picked up their knives and their crossbows<br>And buried the dog. That's all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But whether the man was a poacher too<br>Or a Pharisee' so bold--<br>I reckon there's more things told than are true.<br>And more things true than are told!</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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And men can buy no beer,
Two lads went up to the keepers' hut
To steal Lord Pelham's deer.

Night and the liquor was in their heads--
They laughed and talked no bounds,
Till they waked the keepers on their beds
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