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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539058" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Two Ogres</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good children, list, if you're inclined,<br>And wicked children too -<br>This pretty ballad is designed<br>Especially for you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two ogres dwelt in Wickham Wold -<br>Each TRAITS distinctive had:<br>The younger was as good as gold,<br>The elder was as bad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A wicked, disobedient son<br>Was JAMES M'ALPINE, and<br>A contrast to the elder one,<br>Good APPLEBODY BLAND.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">M'ALPINE - brutes like him are few -<br>In greediness delights,<br>A melancholy victim to<br>Unchastened appetites.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good, well-bred children every day<br>He ravenously ate, -<br>All boys were fish who found their way<br>Into M'ALPINE'S net:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Boys whose good breeding is innate,<br>Whose sums are always right;<br>And boys who don't expostulate<br>When sent to bed at night;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And kindly boys who never search<br>The nests of birds of song;<br>And serious boys for whom, in church,<br>No sermon is too long.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Contrast with JAMES'S greedy haste<br>And comprehensive hand,<br>The nice discriminating taste<br>Of APPLEBODY BLAND.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">BLAND only eats bad boys, who swear -<br>Who CAN behave, but DON'T -<br>Disgraceful lads who say &quot;don't care,&quot;<br>And &quot;shan't,&quot; and &quot;can't,&quot; and &quot;won't.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who wet their shoes and learn to box,<br>And say what isn't true,<br>Who bite their nails and jam their frocks,<br>And make long noses too;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who kick a nurse's aged shin,<br>And sit in sulky mopes;<br>And boys who twirl poor kittens in<br>Distracting zoetropes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But JAMES, when he was quite a youth,<br>Had often been to school,<br>And though so bad, to tell the truth,<br>He wasn't quite a fool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At logic few with him could vie;<br>To his peculiar sect<br>He could propose a fallacy<br>With singular effect.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, when his Mentors said, &quot;Expound -<br>Why eat good children - why?&quot;<br>Upon his Mentors he would round<br>With this absurd reply:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I have been taught to love the good -<br>The pure - the unalloyed -<br>And wicked boys, I've understood,<br>I always should avoid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Why do I eat good children - why?<br>Because I love them so!&quot;<br>(But this was empty sophistry,<br>As your Papa can show.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, though the learning of his friends<br>Was truly not immense,<br>They had a way of fitting ends<br>By rule of common sense.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Away, away!&quot; his Mentors cried,<br>&quot;Thou uncongenial pest!<br>A quirk's a thing we can't abide,<br>A quibble we detest!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;A fallacy in your reply<br>Our intellect descries,<br>Although we don't pretend to spy<br>Exactly where it lies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;In misery and penal woes<br>Must end a glutton's joys;<br>And learn how ogres punish those<br>Who dare to eat good boys.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Secured by fetter, cramp, and chain,<br>And gagged securely - so -<br>You shall be placed in Drury Lane,<br>Where only good lads go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Surrounded there by virtuous boys,<br>You'll suffer torture wus<br>Than that which constantly annoys<br>Disgraceful TANTALUS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(&quot;If you would learn the woes that vex<br>Poor TANTALUS, down there,<br>Pray borrow of Papa an ex-<br>Purgated LEMPRIERE.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;But as for BLAND who, as it seems,<br>Eats only naughty boys,<br>We've planned a recompense that teems<br>With gastronomic joys.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Where wicked youths in crowds are stowed<br>He shall unquestioned rule,<br>And have the run of Hackney Road<br>Reformatory School!&quot;</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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And wicked children too -
This pretty ballad is designed
Especially for you.

Two ogres dwelt in Wickham Wold -
Each TRAITS distinctive had:
The younger was as good as gold,
The elder was as bad.

A wicked,..."></div>
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