<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342688" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Welcome</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because you call yourself Knights Templar, and<br>There's neither Knight nor Temple in the land,<br>Because you thus by vain pretense degrade<br>To paltry purposes traditions grand,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because to cheat the ignorant you say<br>The thing that's not, elated still to sway<br>The crass credulity of gaping fools<br>And women by fantastical display,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because no sacred fires did ever warm<br>Your hearts, high knightly service to perform<br>A woman's breast or coffer of a man<br>The only citadel you dare to storm,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because while railing still at lord and peer,<br>At pomp and fuss-and-feathers while you jeer,<br>Each member of your order tries to graft<br>A peacock's tail upon his barren rear,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because that all these things are thus and so,<br>I bid you welcome to our city. Lo!<br>You're free to come, and free to stay, and free<br>As soon as it shall please you, sirs-to go.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</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=342688" data-title="A Welcome de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="Because you call yourself Knights Templar, and There's neither Knight nor Temple in the land, Because you thus by vain pretense degrade To paltry purposes traditions grand, Because to cheat the ignorant you say The thing that's not, elated still ..."></div> </div> </div>

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