<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118305" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Duty</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Duty that’s to say, complying,<br>With whate’er’s expected here;<br>On your unknown cousin’s dying,<br>Straight be ready with the tear;<br>Upon etiquette relying,<br>Unto usage nought denying,<br>Lend your waist to be embraced,<br>Blush not even, never fear;<br>Claims of kith and kin connection,<br>Claims of manners honour still,<br>Ready money of affection<br>Pay, whoever drew the bill.<br>With the form conforming duly,<br>Senseless what it meaneth truly,<br>Go to church the world require you,<br>To balls the world require you too,<br>And marry papa and mamma desire you,<br>And your sisters and schoolfellows do.<br>Duty ’tis to take on trust<br>What things are good, and right, and just;<br>And whether indeed they be or be not,<br>Try not, test not, feel not, see not:<br>’Tis walk and dance, sit down and rise<br>By leading, opening ne’er your eyes;<br>Stunt sturdy limbs that Nature gave,<br>And be drawn in a Bath chair along to the grave.<br>’Tis the stern and prompt suppressing,<br>As an obvious deadly sin,<br>All the questing and the guessing<br>Of the souls own soul within:<br>’Tis the coward acquiescence<br>In a destiny’s behest,<br>To a shade by terror made,<br>Sacrificing, aye, the essence<br>Of all that’s truest, noblest, best:<br>’Tis the blind non-recognition<br>Or of goodness, truth, or beauty,<br>Save by precept and submission;<br>Moral blank, and moral void,<br>Life at very birth destroyed.<br>Atrophy, exinanition!<br>Duty!<br>Yea, by duty’s prime condition<br>Pure nonentity of duty!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Arthur+Hugh+Clough">Arthur Hugh Clough</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118305" data-title="Duty de Arthur Hugh Clough" data-description="Duty that’s to say, complying,/With whate’er’s expected here;/On your unknown cousin’s dying,/Straight be ready with the tear;/Upon etiquette relying,/Unto usage nought denying,/Lend your waist to be embraced,/Blush not even, never fear;/C..."></div> </div> </div>

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