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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538990" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Baby's Vengeance</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weary at heart and extremely ill<br>Was PALEY VOLLAIRE of Bromptonville,<br>In a dirty lodging, with fever down,<br>Close to the Polygon, Somers Town.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">PALEY VOLLAIRE was an only son<br>(For why? His mother had had but one),<br>And PALEY inherited gold and grounds<br>Worth several hundred thousand pounds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But he, like many a rich young man,<br>Through this magnificent fortune ran,<br>And nothing was left for his daily needs<br>But duplicate copies of mortgage-deeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shabby and sorry and sorely sick,<br>He slept, and dreamt that the clock's "tick, tick,"<br>Was one of the Fates, with a long sharp knife,<br>Snicking off bits of his shortened life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He woke and counted the pips on the walls,<br>The outdoor passengers' loud footfalls,<br>And reckoned all over, and reckoned again,<br>The little white tufts on his counterpane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A medical man to his bedside came.<br>(I can't remember that doctor's name),<br>And said, "You'll die in a very short while<br>If you don't set sail for Madeira's isle."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Go to Madeira? goodness me!<br>I haven't the money to pay your fee!"<br>"Then, PALEY VOLLAIRE," said the leech, "good bye;<br>I'll come no more, for your're sure to die."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He sighed and he groaned and smote his breast;<br>"Oh, send," said he, "for FREDERICK WEST,<br>Ere senses fade or my eyes grow dim:<br>I've a terrible tale to whisper him!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor was FREDERICK'S lot in life, -<br>A dustman he with a fair young wife,<br>A worthy man with a hard-earned store,<br>A hundred and seventy pounds - or more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">FREDERICK came, and he said, "Maybe<br>You'll say what you happened to want with me?"<br>"Wronged boy," said PALEY VOLLAIRE, "I will,<br>But don't you fidget yourself - sit still."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>THE TERRIBLE TALE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"'Tis now some thirty-seven years ago<br>Since first began the plot that I'm revealing,<br>A fine young woman, whom you ought to know,<br>Lived with her husband down in Drum Lane, Ealing.<br>Herself by means of mangling reimbursing,<br>And now and then (at intervals) wet-nursing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Two little babes dwelt in their humble cot:<br>One was her own - the other only lent to her:<br>HER OWN SHE SLIGHTED. Tempted by a lot<br>Of gold and silver regularly sent to her,<br>She ministered unto the little other<br>In the capacity of foster-mother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I WAS HER OWN. Oh! how I lay and sobbed<br>In my poor cradle - deeply, deeply cursing<br>The rich man's pampered bantling, who had robbed<br>My only birthright - an attentive nursing!<br>Sometimes in hatred of my foster-brother,<br>I gnashed my gums - which terrified my mother.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"One day - it was quite early in the week -<br>I IN MY CRADLE HAVING PLACED THE BANTLING -<br>Crept into his! He had not learnt to speak,<br>But I could see his face with anger mantling.<br>It was imprudent - well, disgraceful maybe,<br>For, oh! I was a bad, blackhearted baby!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"So great a luxury was food, I think<br>No wickedness but I was game to try for it.<br>NOW if I wanted anything to drink<br>At any time, I only had to cry for it!<br>ONCE, if I dared to weep, the bottle lacking,<br>My blubbering involved a serious smacking!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"We grew up in the usual way - my friend,<br>My foster-brother, daily growing thinner,<br>While gradually I began to mend,<br>And thrived amazingly on double dinner.<br>And every one, besides my foster-mother,<br>Believed that either of us was the other.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I came into HIS wealth - I bore HIS name,<br>I bear it still - HIS property I squandered -<br>I mortgaged everything - and now (oh, shame!)<br>Into a Somers Town shake-down I've wandered!<br>I am no PALEY - no, VOLLAIRE - it's true, my boy!<br>The only rightful PALEY V. is YOU, my boy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"And all I have is yours - and yours is mine.<br>I still may place you in your true position:<br>Give me the pounds you've saved, and I'll resign<br>My noble name, my rank, and my condition.<br>So far my wickedness in falsely owning<br>Your vasty wealth, I am at last atoning!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">FREDERICK he was a simple soul,<br>He pulled from his pocket a bulky roll,<br>And gave to PALEY his hard-earned store,<br>A hundred and seventy pounds or more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">PALEY VOLLAIRE, with many a groan,<br>Gave FREDERICK all that he called his own, -<br>Two shirts and a sock, and a vest of jean,<br>A Wellington boot and a bamboo cane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And FRED (entitled to all things there)<br>He took the fever from MR. VOLLAIRE,<br>Which killed poor FREDERICK WEST. Meanwhile<br>VOLLAIRE sailed off to Madeira's isle.</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=538990" data-title="The Baby's Vengeance de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="Weary at heart and extremely ill Was PALEY VOLLAIRE of Bromptonville, In a dirty lodging, with fever down, Close to the Polygon, Somers Town. PALEY VOLLAIRE was an only son (For why? His mother had had but one), And PALEY inherited gold and groun..."></div> </div> </div>
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