<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357355" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Case for Kings</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've never had much truck with kings<br>(Said old George Jones). For all my days<br>My lot's been cast 'mid common thngs,<br>My path has run by humble ways.<br>Tho' I have live my life in what<br>Men call 'The shadow of the throne,'<br>No king disturbed my peace one jot,<br>And I have left them well alone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I have heard men rave and rant<br>Of great injustice, wrongs and rights<br>And all that maudlin, modern cant<br>Of liberty and freedom's fights.<br>But peacefully I've gone my way<br>And sought content on this bright earth.<br>I've harked to all they've had to say,<br>And summed it up for all it's worth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But foreign lands have crushed their kings,<br>And raised new flags of strange design;<br>Yet all the liberty it brings<br>Seems, somehow, not one half of mine<br>In all those lands in this dread hour<br>Warring ambitions rise supreme;<br>And, in his crazy lust for pow'r,<br>Brother slays brother - for a dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some wise man, in some book I read<br>(Said old George Jones) the seer explains<br>All human plans must have a head;<br>And, if it falls, black chaos reigns.<br>And can one doubt? When, far and wide,<br>Not freedom's gain, but freedom's loss<br>Follows the fall, with fratricide<br>'Mid those who would supplant the Boss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</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=357355" data-title="A Case for Kings de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="I've never had much truck with kings (Said old George Jones). For all my days My lot's been cast 'mid common thngs, My path has run by humble ways. Tho' I have live my life in what Men call 'The shadow of the throne,' No king disturbed my peace on..."></div> </div> </div>

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