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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539007" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Fairy Curate</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once a fairy<br>Light and airy<br>Married with a mortal;<br>Men, however,<br>Never, never<br>Pass the fairy portal.<br>Slyly stealing,<br>She to Ealing<br>Made a daily journey;<br>There she found him,<br>Clients round him<br>(He was an attorney).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long they tarried,<br>Then they married.<br>When the ceremony<br>Once was ended,<br>Off they wended<br>On their moon of honey.<br>Twelvemonth, maybe,<br>Saw a baby<br>(Friends performed an orgie).<br>Much they prized him,<br>And baptized him<br>By the name of GEORGIE,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">GEORGIE grew up;<br>Then he flew up<br>To his fairy mother.<br>Happy meeting -<br>Pleasant greeting -<br>Kissing one another.<br>&quot;Choose a calling<br>Most enthralling,<br>I sincerely urge ye.&quot;<br>&quot;Mother,&quot; said he<br>(Rev'rence made he),<br>&quot;I would join the clergy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Give permission<br>In addition -<br>Pa will let me do it:<br>There's a living<br>In his giving -<br>He'll appoint me to it.<br>Dreams of coff'ring,<br>Easter off'ring,<br>Tithe and rent and pew-rate,<br>So inflame me<br>(Do not blame me),<br>That I'll be a curate.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She, with pleasure,<br>Said, &quot;My treasure,<br>'T is my wish precisely.<br>Do your duty,<br>There's a beauty;<br>You have chosen wisely.<br>Tell your father<br>I would rather<br>As a churchman rank you.<br>You, in clover,<br>I'll watch over.&quot;<br>GEORGIE said, &quot;Oh, thank you!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">GEORGIE scudded,<br>Went and studied,<br>Made all preparations,<br>And with credit<br>(Though he said it)<br>Passed examinations.<br>(Do not quarrel<br>With him, moral,<br>Scrupulous digestions -<br>'Twas his mother,<br>And no other,<br>Answered all the questions.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time proceeded;<br>Little needed<br>GEORGIE admonition:<br>He, elated,<br>Vindicated<br>Clergyman's position.<br>People round him<br>Always found him<br>Plain and unpretending;<br>Kindly teaching,<br>Plainly preaching,<br>All his money lending.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the fairy,<br>Wise and wary,<br>Felt no sorrow rising -<br>No occasion<br>For persuasion,<br>Warning, or advising.<br>He, resuming<br>Fairy pluming<br>(That's not English, is it?)<br>Oft would fly up,<br>To the sky up,<br>Pay mamma a visit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time progressing,<br>GEORGIE'S blessing<br>Grew more Ritualistic -<br>Popish scandals,<br>Tonsures - sandals -<br>Genuflections mystic;<br>Gushing meetings -<br>Bosom-beatings -<br>Heavenly ecstatics -<br>Broidered spencers -<br>Copes and censers -<br>Rochets and dalmatics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This quandary<br>Vexed the fairy -<br>Flew she down to Ealing.<br>&quot;GEORGIE, stop it!<br>Pray you, drop it;<br>Hark to my appealing:<br>To this foolish<br>Papal rule-ish<br>Twaddle put an ending;<br>This a swerve is<br>From our Service<br>Plain and unpretending.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He, replying,<br>Answered, sighing,<br>Hawing, hemming, humming,<br>&quot;It's a pity -<br>They're so pritty;<br>Yet in mode becoming,<br>Mother tender,<br>I'll surrender -<br>I'll be unaffected - &quot;<br>But his Bishop<br>Into HIS shop<br>Entered unexpected!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Who is this, sir, -<br>Ballet miss, sir?&quot;<br>Said the Bishop coldly.<br>&quot;'T is my mother,<br>And no other,&quot;<br>GEORGIE answered boldly.<br>&quot;Go along, sir!<br>You are wrong, sir;<br>You have years in plenty,<br>While this hussy<br>(Gracious mussy!)<br>Isn't two and twenty!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Fairies clever<br>Never, never<br>Grow in visage older;<br>And the fairy,<br>All unwary,<br>Leant upon his shoulder!)<br>Bishop grieved him,<br>Disbelieved him;<br>GEORGE the point grew warm on;<br>Changed religion,<br>Like a pigeon,<br>And became a Mormon!</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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Light and airy
Married with a mortal;
Men, however,
Never, never
Pass the fairy portal.
Slyly stealing,
She to Ealing
Made a daily journey;
There she found him,
Clients round him
(He was an attorney).

Long they tarried,
Then they mar..."></div>
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