<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538190" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Interlude</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, the fun, the fun and frolic<br>That The Wind that Shakes the Barley<br>Scatters through a penny-whistle<br>Tickled with artistic fingers!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kate the scrubber (forty summers,<br>Stout but sportive) treads a measure,<br>Grinning, in herself a ballet,<br>Fixed as fate upon her audience.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stumps are shaking, crutch-supported;<br>Splinted fingers tap the rhythm;<br>And a head all helmed with plasters<br>Wags a measured approbation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of their mattress-life oblivious,<br>All the patients, brisk and cheerful,<br>Are encouraging the dancer,<br>And applauding the musician.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dim the gas-lights in the output<br>Of so many ardent smokers,<br>Full of shadow lurch the corners,<br>And the doctor peeps and passes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are, maybe, some suspicions<br>Of an alcoholic presence . . .<br>'Tak' a sup of this, my wumman!' . . .<br>New Year comes but once a twelvemonth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Ernest+Henley">William Ernest Henley</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=538190" data-title="Interlude de William Ernest Henley" data-description="O, the fun, the fun and frolic That The Wind that Shakes the Barley Scatters through a penny-whistle Tickled with artistic fingers! Kate the scrubber (forty summers, Stout but sportive) treads a measure, Grinning, in herself a ballet, Fixed as fa..."></div> </div> </div>

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