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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538960" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">First you're born - and I'll be bound you<br>Find a dozen strangers round you.<br>&quot;Hallo,&quot; cries the new-born baby,<br>&quot;Where's my parents? which may they be?&quot;<br>Awkward silence - no reply -<br>Puzzled baby wonders why!<br>Father rises, bows politely -<br>Mother smiles (but not too brightly) -<br>Doctor mumbles like a dumb thing -<br>Nurse is busy mixing something. -<br>Every symptom tends to show<br>You're decidedly DE TROP -<br>Ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! he! ho! ho!<br>Time's teetotum,<br>If you spin it,<br>Give its quotum<br>Once a minute:<br>I'll go bail<br>You hit the nail,<br>And if you fail<br>The deuce is in it!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You grow up, and you discover<br>What it is to be a lover.<br>Some young lady is selected -<br>Poor, perhaps, but well-connected,<br>Whom you hail (for Love is blind<br>As the Queen of Fairy-kind.<br>Though she's plain - perhaps unsightly,<br>Makes her face up - laces tightly,<br>In her form your fancy traces<br>All the gifts of all the graces.<br>Rivals none the maiden woo,<br>So you take her and she takes you!<br>Ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho!<br>Joke beginning,<br>Never ceases,<br>Till your inning<br>Time releases;<br>On your way<br>You blindly stray,<br>And day by day<br>The joke increases!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ten years later - Time progresses -<br>Sours your temper - thins your tresses;<br>Fancy, then, her chain relaxes;<br>Rates are facts and so are taxes.<br>Fairy Queen's no longer young -<br>Fairy Queen has such a tongue!<br>Twins have probably intruded -<br>Quite unbidden - just as you did;<br>They're a source of care and trouble -<br>Just as you were - only double.<br>Comes at last the final stroke -<br>Time has had his little joke!<br>Ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho!<br>Daily driven<br>(Wife as drover)<br>Ill you've thriven -<br>Ne'er in clover:<br>Lastly, when<br>Threescore and ten<br>(And not till then),<br>The joke is over!<br>Ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho!<br>Then - and then<br>The joke is over!</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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Find a dozen strangers round you.
&quot;Hallo,&quot; cries the new-born baby,
&quot;Where's my parents? which may they be?&quot;
Awkward silence - no reply -
Puzzled baby wonders why!
Father rises, bows po..."></div>
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