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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539047" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sensation Captain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">No nobler captain ever trod<br>Than CAPTAIN PARKLEBURY TODD,<br>So good - so wise - so brave, he!<br>But still, as all his friends would own,<br>He had one folly - one alone -<br>This Captain in the Navy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do not think I ever knew<br>A man so wholly given to<br>Creating a sensation,<br>Or p'raps I should in justice say -<br>To what in an Adelphi play<br>Is known as "situation."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He passed his time designing traps<br>To flurry unsuspicious chaps -<br>The taste was his innately;<br>He couldn't walk into a room<br>Without ejaculating "Boom!"<br>Which startled ladies greatly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He'd wear a mask and muffling cloak,<br>Not, you will understand, in joke,<br>As some assume disguises;<br>He did it, actuated by<br>A simple love of mystery<br>And fondness for surprises.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I need not say he loved a maid -<br>His eloquence threw into shade<br>All others who adored her.<br>The maid, though pleased at first, I know,<br>Found, after several years or so,<br>Her startling lover bored her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, when his orders came to sail,<br>She did not faint or scream or wail,<br>Or with her tears anoint him:<br>She shook his hand, and said "Good-bye,"<br>With laughter dancing in her eye -<br>Which seemed to disappoint him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But ere he went aboard his boat,<br>He placed around her little throat<br>A ribbon, blue and yellow,<br>On which he hung a double-tooth -<br>A simple token this, in sooth -<br>'Twas all he had, poor fellow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I often wonder," he would say,<br>When very, very far away,<br>"If ANGELINA wears it?<br>A plan has entered in my head:<br>I will pretend that I am dead,<br>And see how ANGY bears it."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The news he made a messmate tell.<br>His ANGELINA bore it well,<br>No sign gave she of crazing;<br>But, steady as the Inchcape Rock,<br>His ANGELINA stood the shock<br>With fortitude amazing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She said, "Some one I must elect<br>Poor ANGELINA to protect<br>From all who wish to harm her.<br>Since worthy CAPTAIN TODD is dead,<br>I rather feel inclined to wed<br>A comfortable farmer."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A comfortable farmer came<br>(BASSANIO TYLER was his name),<br>Who had no end of treasure.<br>He said, "My noble gal, be mine!"<br>The noble gal did not decline,<br>But simply said, "With pleasure."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When this was told to CAPTAIN TODD,<br>At first he thought it rather odd,<br>And felt some perturbation;<br>But very long he did not grieve,<br>He thought he could a way perceive<br>To SUCH a situation!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I'll not reveal myself," said he,<br>"Till they are both in the Ecclesiastical arena;<br>Then suddenly I will appear,<br>And paralysing them with fear,<br>Demand my ANGELINA!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At length arrived the wedding day;<br>Accoutred in the usual way<br>Appeared the bridal body;<br>The worthy clergyman began,<br>When in the gallant Captain ran<br>And cried, "Behold your TODDY!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bridegroom, p'raps, was terrified,<br>And also possibly the bride -<br>The bridesmaids WERE affrighted;<br>But ANGELINA, noble soul,<br>Contrived her feelings to control,<br>And really seemed delighted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"My bride!" said gallant CAPTAIN TODD,<br>"She's mine, uninteresting clod!<br>My own, my darling charmer!"<br>"Oh dear," said she, "you're just too late -<br>I'm married to, I beg to state,<br>This comfortable farmer!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Indeed," the farmer said, "she's mine:<br>You've been and cut it far too fine!"<br>"I see," said TODD, "I'm beaten."<br>And so he went to sea once more,<br>"Sensation" he for aye forswore,<br>And married on her native shore<br>A lady whom he'd met before -<br>A lovely Otaheitan.</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=539047" data-title="The Sensation Captain de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="No nobler captain ever trod Than CAPTAIN PARKLEBURY TODD, So good - so wise - so brave, he! 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