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Five little girls, of Five, Four, Three, Two, One:
Rolling on the hearthrug, full of tricks and fun.
Five rosy girls, in years from Ten to Six:
Sitting down to lessons - no more time for tricks.
Five growing girls, from Fifteen to Eleven:
Music, Drawing, Languages, and food enough for seven!
Five winsome girls, from Twenty to Sixteen:
Each young man that calls, I say "Now tell me which you MEAN!"
Five dashing girls, the youngest Twenty-one:
But, if nobody proposes, what is there to be done?
Five showy girls - but Thirty is an age
When girls may be ENGAGING, but they somehow don't ENGAGE.
Five dressy girls, of Thirty-one or more:
So gracious to the shy young men they snubbed so much before!
Five PASSE girls - Their age? Well, never mind!
We jog along together, like the rest of human kind:
But the quondam "careless bachelor" begins to think he knows
The answer to that ancient problem "how the money goes"!
Lewis Carroll
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Albert Ahearn
(9/16/2009 1:56:00 PM) |
How can I seriously critique a poem by such a great man with a pen? What can I say? Everything he has written is great in my opinion.
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Chamekka Jones
(9/16/2009 9:34:00 AM) |
LOVE IT! ! ! ESPECIALLY THE ENDING.
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Kevin Straw
(9/16/2009 5:37:00 AM) |
A poem describing an age which has, thankfully, passed; when women had a 'sell-by' date in the marriage stakes, but men did not.
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