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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343012" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Censor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Delay responsible? Why, then; my friend,<br>Impeach Delay and you will make an end.<br>Thrust vile Delay in jail and let it rot<br>For doing all the things that it should not.<br>Put not good-natured judges under bond,<br>But make Delay in damages respond.<br>Minos, Aeacus, Rhadamanthus, rolled<br>Into one pitiless, unsmiling scold<br>Unsparing censor, be your thongs uncurled<br>To 'lash the rascals naked through the world.'<br>The rascals? Nay, Rascality's the thing<br>Above whose back your knotted scourges sing.<br>_Your_ satire, truly, like a razor keen,<br>'Wounds with a touch that's neither felt nor seen;'<br>For naught that you assail with falchion free<br>Has either nerves to feel or eyes to see.<br>Against abstractions evermore you charge<br>You hack no helmet and you need no targe.<br>That wickedness is wrong and sin a vice,<br>That wrong's not right and foulness never nice,<br>Fearless affirm. All consequences dare:<br>Smite the offense and the offender spare.<br>When Ananias and Sapphira lied<br>Falsehood, had you been there, had surely died.<br>When money-changers in the Temple sat,<br>At money-changing you'd have whirled the 'cat'<br>(That John-the-Baptist of the modern pen)<br>And all the brokers would have cried amen!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good friend, if any judge deserve your blame<br>Have you no courage, or has he no name?<br>Upon his method will you wreak your wrath,<br>Himself all unmolested in his path?<br>Fall to! fall to!-your club no longer draw<br>To beat the air or flail a man of straw.<br>Scorn to do justice like the Saxon thrall<br>Who cuffed the offender's shadow on a wall.<br>Let rascals in the flesh attest your zeal<br>Knocked on the mazzard or tripped up at heel!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We know that judges are corrupt. We know<br>That crimes are lively and that laws are slow.<br>We know that lawyers lie and doctors slay;<br>That priests and preachers are but birds of pray;<br>That merchants cheat and journalists for gold<br>Flatter the vicious while at vice they scold.<br>'Tis all familiar as the simple lore<br>That two policemen and two thieves make four.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But since, while some are wicked, some are good,<br>(As trees may differ though they all are wood)<br>Names, here and there, to show whose head is hit,<br>The bad would sentence and the good acquit.<br>In sparing everybody none you spare:<br>Rebukes most personal are least unfair.<br>To fire at random if you still prefer,<br>And swear at Dog but never kick a cur,<br>Permit me yet one ultimate appeal<br>To something that you understand and feel:<br>Let thrift and vanity your heart persuade<br>You might be read if you would learn your trade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Good brother cynics (you have doubtless guessed<br>Not one of you but all are here addressed)<br>Remember this: the shaft that seeks a heart<br>Draws all eyes after it; an idle dart<br>Shot at some shadow flutters o'er the green,<br>Its flight unheeded and its fall unseen.</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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Impeach Delay and you will make an end.
Thrust vile Delay in jail and let it rot
For doing all the things that it should not.
Put not good-natured judges under bond,
But make Delay in damages respond.
Minos..."></div>
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