Bib Ballads

<h3><br/><SPAN name="DECISION_REVERSED" id="DECISION_REVERSED"></SPAN>DECISION REVERSED</h3> <div class="cpoem1"> <p><br/><br/> When I mixed with the shoppers and fought in vain<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">To get what I sought, in the Christmas rush;</span><br/> When they stood on my toes in the crowded train,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Or dented my ribs in the sidewalk crush,</span><br/> I dropped my manners and snarled and swore,<br/> And thought: "It's a bothersome, beastly bore!"<br/> <br/> But when, at the Christmas dawn, they brought<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">My kid to the room where his things were piled,</span><br/> And when, from my vantage point, I caught<br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The look on his face, I murmured: "Child,</span><br/> Your dad was a fool when he snarled and swore,<br/> And called it a bothersome, beastly bore."<br/></p> </div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/036.jpg" width-obs="504" height-obs="600" alt="" title="decoration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />