<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538970" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Only a Dancing Girl</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Only a dancing girl,<br>With an unromantic style,<br>With borrowed colour and curl,<br>With fixed mechanical smile,<br>With many a hackneyed wile,<br>With ungrammatical lips,<br>And corns that mar her trips.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hung from the &quot;flies&quot; in air,<br>She acts a palpable lie,<br>She's as little a fairy there<br>As unpoetical I!<br>I hear you asking, Why -<br>Why in the world I sing<br>This tawdry, tinselled thing?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No airy fairy she,<br>As she hangs in arsenic green<br>From a highly impossible tree<br>In a highly impossible scene<br>(Herself not over-clean).<br>For fays don't suffer, I'm told,<br>From bunions, coughs, or cold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And stately dames that bring<br>Their daughters there to see,<br>Pronounce the &quot;dancing thing&quot;<br>No better than she should be,<br>With her skirt at her shameful knee,<br>And her painted, tainted phiz:<br>Ah, matron, which of us is?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(And, in sooth, it oft occurs<br>That while these matrons sigh,<br>Their dresses are lower than hers,<br>And sometimes half as high;<br>And their hair is hair they buy,<br>And they use their glasses, too,<br>In a way she'd blush to do.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But change her gold and green<br>For a coarse merino gown,<br>And see her upon the scene<br>Of her home, when coaxing down<br>Her drunken father's frown,<br>In his squalid cheerless den:<br>She's a fairy truly, then!</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> <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=538970" data-title="Only a Dancing Girl de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="Only a dancing girl, With an unromantic style, With borrowed colour and curl, With fixed mechanical smile, With many a hackneyed wile, With ungrammatical lips, And corns that mar her trips. Hung from the &quot;flies&quot; in air, She acts a palpa..."></div> </div> </div>

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