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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539066" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thomson Green and Harriet Hale</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(To be sung to the Air of &quot;An 'Orrible Tale.&quot;)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Oh list to this incredible tale<br>Of THOMSON GREEN and HARRIET HALE;<br>Its truth in one remark you'll sum -<br>&quot;Twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, THOMSON GREEN was an auctioneer,<br>And made three hundred pounds a year;<br>And HARRIET HALE, most strange to say,<br>Gave pianoforte lessons at a sovereign a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, THOMSON GREEN, I may remark,<br>Met HARRIET HALE in Regent's Park,<br>Where he, in a casual kind of way,<br>Spoke of the extraordinary beauty of the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They met again, and strange, though true,<br>He courted her for a month or two,<br>Then to her pa he said, says he,<br>&quot;Old man, I love your daughter and your daughter worships me!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their names were regularly banned,<br>The wedding day was settled, and<br>I've ascertained by dint of search<br>They were married on the quiet at St. Mary Abbot's Church.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, list to this incredible tale<br>Of THOMSON GREEN and HARRIET HALE,<br>Its truth in one remark you'll sum -<br>&quot;Twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That very self-same afternoon<br>They started on their honeymoon,<br>And (oh, astonishment!) took flight<br>To a pretty little cottage close to Shanklin, Isle of Wight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now - you'll doubt my word, I know -<br>In a month they both returned, and lo!<br>Astounding fact! this happy pair<br>Took a gentlemanly residence in Canonbury Square!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They led a weird and reckless life,<br>They dined each day, this man and wife<br>(Pray disbelieve it, if you please),<br>On a joint of meat, a pudding, and a little bit of cheese.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In time came those maternal joys<br>Which take the form of girls or boys,<br>And strange to say of each they'd one -<br>A tiddy-iddy daughter, and a tiddy-iddy son!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, list to this incredible tale<br>Of THOMSON GREEN and HARRIET HALE,<br>Its truth in one remark you'll sum -<br>&quot;Twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My name for truth is gone, I fear,<br>But, monstrous as it may appear,<br>They let their drawing-room one day<br>To an eligible person in the cotton-broking way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whenever THOMSON GREEN fell sick<br>His wife called in a doctor, quick,<br>From whom some words like these would come -<br>FIAT MIST. SUMENDUM HAUSTUS, in a COCHLEYAREUM.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For thirty years this curious pair<br>Hung out in Canonbury Square,<br>And somehow, wonderful to say,<br>They loved each other dearly in a quiet sort of way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, THOMSON GREEN fell ill and died;<br>For just a year his widow cried,<br>And then her heart she gave away<br>To the eligible lodger in the cotton-broking way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, list to this incredible tale<br>Of THOMSON GREEN and HARRIET HALE,<br>Its truth in one remark you'll sum -<br>&quot;Twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum!&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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Oh list to this incredible tale
Of THOMSON GREEN and HARRIET HALE;
Its truth in one remark you'll sum -
&quot;Twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum!&quot;

Oh, THOMSON GREEN..."></div>
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