“O aid me ere I err!” bade he.
\n“Nay, nay, I’ll not,” said she.
\n“I’ll aid ye not–you’re overwrought,” she sputtered in her tea.
\n“Avail me, please, I’m on my knees,”
\nBeseeched the lad, awailing.
\n“Peace,” said she, “your tears they’ll be completely unavailing.”
\n“I am,” said he, “a wretched me, with only this petition …”
\n“Your prayer,” said she, “moves not me, nor will I grant permission
\nTo drip upon my tattered shoe your salty drops o’ woe.”
\n“I’d only note,” the laddie quote, a-pointing to his toe,
\n“That you have ta’en seat upon a steamin’ pot ‘o stew.
\nUnderneath that very pot is set a hot fondue
\nAnd as you settle in, you see, the one flows in t’other
\nAnd both begin to drip upon my only little brother.
\nAs he shakes, our boat it quakes, and o’er the gunnels flow
\nThe last of the drips off the honeyed lips o’ the Bonghi-Donghi-Do.”
\n“Cease!” cried she. “Prattle not. I care not what you say.
\nI’ll sit right here and pull yer ear and watch the driplets flow.
\nI care not a wit for the Bonghi-Do; let him do what ere he may!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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