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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344029" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our Mat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It came from the prison this morning, <br>Close-twisted, neat-lettered, and flat; <br>It lies the hall doorway adorning, <br>A very good style of a mat. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Prison-made! how the spirit is moven <br>As we think of its story of dread -- <br>What wiles of the wicked are woven <br>And spun in its intricate thread! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The letters are new, neat and nobby, <br>Suggesting a masterly hand -- <br>Was it Sikes, who half-murdered the bobby, <br>That put the neat D on the &quot;and&quot;? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some banker found guilty of laches -- <br>It's always called laches, you know -- <br>Had Holt any hand in those Hs? <br>Did Bertrand illumine that O? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">That T has a look of the gallows, <br>That A's a triangle, I guess; <br>Was it one of the Mount Rennie fellows <br>Who twisted the strands of the S? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was it made by some &quot;highly connected&quot;, <br>Who is doing his spell &quot;on his head&quot;, <br>Or some wretched woman detected <br>In stealing her children some bread? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Does it speak of a bitter repentance <br>For the crime that so easily came? <br>Of the wearisome length of the sentence, <br>Of the sin, and the sorrow, and shame? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mat! I should call it a sermon <br>On sin, to all sinners addressed; <br>It would take a keen judge to determine <br>Whether writer or reader is best. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though the doorway be hard as a pavestone, <br>I rather would use it than that -- <br>I'd as soon wipe my boots on a gravestone, <br>As I would on that Darlinghurst mat!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q>
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Close-twisted, neat-lettered, and flat; 
It lies the hall doorway adorning, 
A very good style of a mat. 

Prison-made! how the spirit is moven 
As we think of its story of dread -- 
What wiles of the wicked ..."></div>
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