To: Lady Jag; gardengirl; JustAmy; yorkie; MEG33; jaycee; Mama_Bear; Billie
There’s a certain young lady,
Who's just in her heyday,
And full of all mischief, I ween;
So teasing! so pleasing!
Capricious! delicious!
And you know very well whom I mean.
With an eye dark as night,
Yet than noonday more bright,
Was ever a black eye so keen?
It can thrill with a glance,
With a beam can entrance,
And you know very well whom I mean.
With a stately step — such as
You'd expect in a duchess —
And a brow might distinguish a queen,
With a mighty proud air,
That says “touch me who dare,”
And you know very well whom I mean.
With a toss of the head
That strikes one quite dead,
But a smile to revive one again;
That toss so appalling!
That smile so enthralling!
And you know very well whom I mean.
Confound her! devil take her! —
A cruel heart-breaker —
But hold! see that smile so serene.
God love her! God bless her!
May nothing distress her!
You know very well whom I mean.
Heaven help the adorer
Who happens to bore her,
The lover who wakens her spleen;
But too blest for a sinner
Is he who shall win her,
And you know very well whom I mean.
-- Washington Irving (1783-1859)
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2,489 posted on
11/24/2008 8:10:46 PM PST by
OESY
To: OESY
"And you know very well whom I mean." Statue of Liberty?
2,490 posted on
11/24/2008 8:20:30 PM PST by
yorkie
(The early bird gets the worm; the second mouse gets the cheese)
To: OESY
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Weve come to an Age of Unbelieving Where all the magics gone out of the world No more do the Good Folk Dance in the Hollow Hills No more the banshees song Echoes lamentatious trills
All thanks to that fiend Newton And that dreadful man Voltaire The Headless Horseman no longer rides- All Dragons have retreated to their lairs.
In the day and age of Ipods Of hybrid SUVs Of computer graphic systems With Intel Celeron D Hi-tech toys every Christmas Outdated as theyre new We are lost in an Age of Unbelieving If things arent tangible they cant be true!
Megan Lacey
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2,500 posted on
11/24/2008 8:52:06 PM PST by
Lady Jag
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