<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538690" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Tragic Story</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There lived a sage in days of yore, <br>And he a handsome pigtail wore; <br>But wondered much and sorrowed more, <br>Because it hung behind him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He mused upon this curious case, <br>And swore he'd change the pigtail's place, <br>And have it hanging at his face, <br>Not dangling there behind him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Says he, 'The mystery I've found - <br>Says he, 'The mystery I've found! <br>I'll turn me round,' - he turned him round; <br>But still it hung behind him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then round and round, and out and in, <br>All day the puzzled sage did spin; <br>In vain - it mattered not a pin - <br>The pigtail hung behind him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And right and left and round about, <br>And up and down and in and out <br>He turned; but still the pigtail stout <br>Hung steadily behind him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And though his efforts never slack, <br>And though he twist and twirl, and tack, <br>Alas! Still faithful to his back, <br>The pigtail hangs behind him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Makepeace+Thackeray">William Makepeace Thackeray</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=538690" data-title="A Tragic Story de William Makepeace Thackeray" data-description="There lived a sage in days of yore, And he a handsome pigtail wore; But wondered much and sorrowed more, Because it hung behind him. He mused upon this curious case, And swore he'd change the pigtail's place, And have it hanging at his face..."></div> </div> </div>

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