<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589233" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Shake, Mulleary And Go-Ethe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have a bookcase, which is what<br>Many much better men have not.<br>There are no books inside, for books,<br>I am afraid, might spoil its looks.<br>But I've three busts, all second-hand,<br>Upon the top. You understand<br>I could not put them underneath -<br>Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shake was a dramatist of note;<br>He lived by writing things to quote,<br>He long ago put on his shroud:<br>Some of his works are rather loud.<br>His bald-spot's dusty, I suppose.<br>I know there's dust upon his nose.<br>I'll have to give each nose a sheath -<br>Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mulleary's line was quite the same;<br>He has more hair, but far less fame.<br>I would not from that fame retrench -<br>But he is foreign, being French.<br>Yet high his haughty head he heaves,<br>The only one done up in leaves,<br>They're rather limited on wreath -<br>Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go-ethe wrote in the German tongue:<br>He must have learned it very young.<br>His nose is quite a butt for scoff,<br>Although an inch of it is off.<br>He did quite nicely for the Dutch;<br>But here he doesn't count for much.<br>They all are off their native heath -<br>Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They sit there, on their chests, as bland<br>As if they were not second-hand.<br>I do not know of what they think,<br>Nor why they never frown or wink,<br>But why from smiling they refrain<br>I think I clearly can explain:<br>They none of them could show much teeth -<br>Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=V.+Hugo+Dusenbury">V. Hugo Dusenbury</a> from <i>Puck</i><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=589233" data-title="Shake, Mulleary And Go-Ethe de V. Hugo Dusenbury" data-description="I/I have a bookcase, which is what/Many much better men have not./There are no books inside, for books,/I am afraid, might spoil its looks./But I've three busts, all second-hand,/Upon the top. You understand/I could not put them underneath -/Shake..."></div> </div> </div>

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