<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342867" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Platform</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Dr. Bill Bartlett stepped out of the hum<br>Of Mammon's distracting and wearisome strife<br>To stand and deliver a lecture on 'Some<br>Conditions of Intellectual Life,'<br>I cursed the offender who gave him the hall<br>To lecture on any conditions at all!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But he rose with a fire divine in his eye,<br>Haranguing with endless abundance of breath,<br>Till I slept; and I dreamed of a gibbet reared high,<br>And Dr. Bill Bartlett was dressing for death.<br>And I thought in my dream: 'These conditions, no doubt,<br>Are bad for the life he was talking about.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I cried (pray remember this all was a dream):<br>'Get off of the platform!-it isn't the kind!'<br>But he fell through the trap, with a jerk at the beam,<br>And wiggled his toes to unburden his mind.<br>And, O, so bewitching the thoughts he advanced,<br>That I clung to his ankles, attentive, entranced!</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=342867" data-title="On The Platform de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="When Dr. Bill Bartlett stepped out of the hum Of Mammon's distracting and wearisome strife To stand and deliver a lecture on 'Some Conditions of Intellectual Life,' I cursed the offender who gave him the hall To lecture on any conditions at all! ..."></div> </div> </div>

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