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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538944" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gentle Alice Brown</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a robber's daughter, and her name was ALICE BROWN,<br>Her father was the terror of a small Italian town;<br>Her mother was a foolish, weak, but amiable old thing;<br>But it isn't of her parents that I'm going for to sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As ALICE was a-sitting at her window-sill one day,<br>A beautiful young gentleman he chanced to pass that way;<br>She cast her eyes upon him, and he looked so good and true,<br>That she thought, &quot;I could be happy with a gentleman like you!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And every morning passed her house that cream of gentlemen,<br>She knew she might expect him at a quarter unto ten;<br>A sorter in the Custom-house, it was his daily road<br>(The Custom-house was fifteen minutes' walk from her abode).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ALICE was a pious girl, who knew it wasn't wise<br>To look at strange young sorters with expressive purple eyes;<br>So she sought the village priest to whom her family confessed,<br>The priest by whom their little sins were carefully assessed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh, holy father,&quot; ALICE said, &quot;'t would grieve you, would it not,<br>To discover that I was a most disreputable lot?<br>Of all unhappy sinners I'm the most unhappy one!&quot;<br>The padre said, &quot;Whatever have you been and gone and done?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I have helped mamma to steal a little kiddy from its dad,<br>I've assisted dear papa in cutting up a little lad,<br>I've planned a little burglary and forged a little cheque,<br>And slain a little baby for the coral on its neck!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The worthy pastor heaved a sigh, and dropped a silent tear,<br>And said, &quot;You mustn't judge yourself too heavily, my dear:<br>It's wrong to murder babies, little corals for to fleece;<br>But sins like these one expiates at half-a-crown apiece.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Girls will be girls - you're very young, and flighty in your mind;<br>Old heads upon young shoulders we must not expect to find:<br>We mustn't be too hard upon these little girlish tricks -<br>Let's see - five crimes at half-a-crown - exactly twelve-and-six.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh, father,&quot; little Alice cried, &quot;your kindness makes me weep,<br>You do these little things for me so singularly cheap -<br>Your thoughtful liberality I never can forget;<br>But, oh! there is another crime I haven't mentioned yet!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;A pleasant-looking gentleman, with pretty purple eyes,<br>I've noticed at my window, as I've sat a-catching flies;<br>He passes by it every day as certain as can be -<br>I blush to say I've winked at him, and he has winked at me!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;For shame!&quot; said FATHER PAUL, &quot;my erring daughter! On my word<br>This is the most distressing news that I have ever heard.<br>Why, naughty girl, your excellent papa has pledged your hand<br>To a promising young robber, the lieutenant of his band!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;This dreadful piece of news will pain your worthy parents so!<br>They are the most remunerative customers I know;<br>For many many years they've kept starvation from my doors:<br>I never knew so criminal a family as yours!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;The common country folk in this insipid neighbourhood<br>Have nothing to confess, they're so ridiculously good;<br>And if you marry any one respectable at all,<br>Why, you'll reform, and what will then become of FATHER PAUL?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The worthy priest, he up and drew his cowl upon his crown,<br>And started off in haste to tell the news to ROBBER BROWN -<br>To tell him how his daughter, who was now for marriage fit,<br>Had winked upon a sorter, who reciprocated it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good ROBBER BROWN he muffled up his anger pretty well:<br>He said, &quot;I have a notion, and that notion I will tell;<br>I will nab this gay young sorter, terrify him into fits,<br>And get my gentle wife to chop him into little bits.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I've studied human nature, and I know a thing or two:<br>Though a girl may fondly love a living gent, as many do -<br>A feeling of disgust upon her senses there will fall<br>When she looks upon his body chopped particularly small.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He traced that gallant sorter to a still suburban square;<br>He watched his opportunity, and seized him unaware;<br>He took a life-preserver and he hit him on the head,<br>And MRS. BROWN dissected him before she went to bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And pretty little ALICE grew more settled in her mind,<br>She never more was guilty of a weakness of the kind,<br>Until at length good ROBBER BROWN bestowed her pretty hand<br>On the promising young robber, the lieutenant of his band.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</a><div class=q>
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Her mother was a foolish, weak, but amiable old thing;
But it isn't of her parents that I'm going for to sing.

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