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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342943" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Free Trader's Lament</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft from a trading-boat I purchased spice<br>And shells and corals, brought for my inspection<br>From the fair tropics-paid a Christian price<br>And was content in my fool's paradise,<br>Where never had been heard the word 'Protection.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'T was my sole island; there I dwelt alone<br>No customs-house, collector nor collection,<br>But a man came, who, in a pious tone<br>Condoled with me that I had never known<br>The manifest advantage of Protection.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, when the trading-boat arrived one day,<br>He threw a stink-pot into its mid-section.<br>The traders paddled for their lives away,<br>Nor came again into that haunted bay,<br>The blessed home thereafter of Protection.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then down he sat, that philanthropic man,<br>And spat upon some mud of his selection,<br>And worked it, with his knuckles in a pan,<br>To shapes of shells and coral things, and span<br>A thread of song in glory of Protection.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He baked them in the sun. His air devout<br>Enchanted me. I made a genuflexion:<br>'God help you, gentle sir,' I said. 'No doubt,'<br>He answered gravely, 'I'll get on without<br>Assistance now that we have got Protection.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thenceforth I bought his wares-at what a price<br>For shells and corals of such imperfection!<br>'Ah, now,' said he, 'your lot is truly nice.'<br>But still in all that isle there was no spice<br>To season to my taste that dish, Protection.</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>
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And shells and corals, brought for my inspection
From the fair tropics-paid a Christian price
And was content in my fool's paradise,
Where never had been heard the word 'Protection.'

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