Five little girls, of Five, Four, Three, Two, One: <br />Rolling on the hearthrug, full of tricks and fun. <br /> <br />Five rosy girls, in years from Ten to Six: <br />Sitting down to lessons - no more time for tricks. <br /> <br />Five growing girls, from Fifteen to Eleven: <br />Music, Drawing, Languages, and food enough for seven! <br /> <br />Five winsome girls, from Twenty to Sixteen: <br />Each young man that calls, I say "Now tell me which you MEAN!" <br /> <br />Five dashing girls, the youngest Twenty-one: <br />But, if nobody proposes, what is there to be done? <br /> <br />Five showy girls - but Thirty is an age <br />When girls may be ENGAGING, but they somehow don't ENGAGE. <br /> <br />Five dressy girls, of Thirty-one or more: <br />So gracious to the shy young men they snubbed so much before! <br /> <br /> <br />Five PASSE girls - Their age? Well, never mind! <br />We jog along together, like the rest of human kind: <br />But the quondam "careless bachelor" begins to think he knows <br />The answer to that ancient problem "how the money goes"!<br /><br />Lewis Carroll<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-game-of-fives/
