Row A: We are sent by the Count, Mata-li-ri-li-ri-lion. Row B: What do you wish? Mata-li-ri-li-ri-lion. Row A: We want a girl (boy) Mata-li-ri-li-ri-lion. Row B: Take your choice Mata-li-ri-li-ri-lion. Row A: We choose Maria. Mata-li-ri-li-ri-lion. Row B: What high place shall you give her (him)? Mata-li-ri-li-ri-lion. Row A: She (he) shall be a tortilla-maker Mata-li-ri-li-ri-lion. Row B: That high offer does not please us Mata-li-ri-li-ri-lion. Row A: You may take the chosen one Mata-li-ri-li-ri-lion. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GALLOWS by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS LAODAMIA by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH A SONNET. ON CYNTHIA SICK by PHILIP AYRES THE STEAM-ENGINE: CANTO 10. THE RAILWAY BOOM, 1845 by T. BAKER AN UNANSWERABLE APOLOGY FOR THE RICH by MARY BARBER THE KILN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |