<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538989" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ape and the Lady</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A LADY fair, of lineage high,<br>Was loved by an Ape, in the days gone by -<br>The Maid was radiant as the sun,<br>The Ape was a most unsightly one -<br>So it would not do -<br>His scheme fell through;<br>For the Maid, when his love took formal shape,<br>Expressed such terror<br>At his monstrous error,<br>That he stammered an apology and made his 'scape,<br>The picture of a disconcerted Ape.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a view to rise in the social scale,<br>He shaved his bristles, and he docked his tail,<br>He grew moustachios, and he took his tub,<br>And he paid a guinea to a toilet club.<br>But it would not do,<br>The scheme fell through -<br>For the Maid was Beauty's fairest Queen,<br>With golden tresses,<br>Like a real princess's,<br>While the Ape, despite his razor keen,<br>Was the apiest Ape that ever was seen!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He bought white ties, and he bought dress suits,<br>He crammed his feet into bright tight boots,<br>And to start his life on a brand-new plan,<br>He christened himself Darwinian Man!<br>But it would not do,<br>The scheme fell through -<br>For the Maiden fair, whom the monkey craved,<br>Was a radiant Being,<br>With a brain far-seeing -<br>While a Man, however well-behaved,<br>At best is only a monkey shaved!</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=538989" data-title="The Ape and the Lady de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="A LADY fair, of lineage high, Was loved by an Ape, in the days gone by - The Maid was radiant as the sun, The Ape was a most unsightly one - So it would not do - His scheme fell through; For the Maid, when his love took formal shape, Expressed suc..."></div> </div> </div>

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