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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538968" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Paul and Old Tim</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When rival adorers come courting a maid,<br>There's something or other may often be said,<br>Why HE should be pitched upon rather than HIM.<br>This wasn't the case with Old PAUL and Old TIM.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No soul could discover a reason at all<br>For marrying TIMOTHY rather than PAUL;<br>Though all could have offered good reasons, on oath,<br>Against marrying either - or marrying both.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were equally wealthy and equally old,<br>They were equally timid and equally bold;<br>They were equally tall as they stood in their shoes -<br>Between them, in fact, there was nothing to choose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had I been young EMILY, I should have said,<br>&quot;You're both much too old for a pretty young maid,<br>Threescore at the least you are verging upon&quot;;<br>But I wasn't young EMILY. Let us get on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No coward's blood ran in young EMILY'S veins,<br>Her martial old father loved bloody campaigns;<br>At the rumours of battles all over the globe<br>He pricked up his ears like the war-horse in &quot;Job.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He chuckled to hear of a sudden surprise -<br>Of soldiers, compelled, through an enemy's spies,<br>Without any knapsacks or shakos to flee -<br>For an eminent army-contractor was he.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So when her two lovers, whose patience was tried,<br>Implored her between them at once to decide,<br>She told them she'd marry whichever might bring<br>Good proofs of his doing the pluckiest thing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They both went away with a qualified joy:<br>That coward, Old PAUL, chose a very small boy,<br>And when no one was looking, in spite of his fears,<br>He set to work boxing that little boy's ears.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The little boy struggled and tugged at his hair,<br>But the lion was roused, and Old PAUL didn't care;<br>He smacked him, and whacked him, and boxed him, and kicked<br>Till the poor little beggar was royally licked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old TIM knew a trick worth a dozen of that,<br>So he called for his stick and he called for his hat.<br>&quot;I'll cover myself with cheap glory - I'll go<br>And wallop the Frenchmen who live in Soho!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;The German invader is ravaging France<br>With infantry rifle and cavalry lance,<br>And beautiful Paris is fighting her best<br>To shake herself free from her terrible guest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;The Frenchmen in London, in craven alarms,<br>Have all run away from the summons to arms;<br>They haven't the pluck of a pigeon - I'll go<br>And wallop the Frenchmen who skulk in Soho!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old TIMOTHY tried it and found it succeed:<br>That day he caused many French noses to bleed;<br>Through foggy Soho he spread fear and dismay,<br>And Frenchmen all round him in agony lay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He took care to abstain from employing his fist<br>On the old and the crippled, for they might resist;<br>A crippled old man may have pluck in his breast,<br>But the young and the strong ones are cowards confest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old TIM and Old PAUL, with the list of their foes,<br>Prostrated themselves at their EMILY'S toes:<br>&quot;Oh, which of us two is the pluckier blade?&quot;<br>And EMILY answered and EMILY said:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Old TIM has thrashed runaway Frenchmen in scores,<br>Who ought to be guarding their cities and shores;<br>Old PAUL has made little chaps' noses to bleed -<br>Old PAUL has accomplished the pluckier deed!&quot;</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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There's something or other may often be said,
Why HE should be pitched upon rather than HIM.
This wasn't the case with Old PAUL and Old TIM.

No soul could discover a reason at all
For marrying TIMOTHY rath..."></div>
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