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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357420" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Old Man Muses</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can it be I - this Hindenburg, deferring<br>To demagogues, catch phrases, lucky charms<br>And all this mummery about me stirring?<br>Can it be I, lord of high feats of arms,<br>Smiling complancence on a rabble's blunders,<br>Counting a mountebank amongst my peers <br>I, who commanded with the voice of thunders?<br>Ah, what a role betrays me with the years!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can it be I - condoning, cavallering<br>This sorry paint-and-tinsel paladin.<br>This braggart upstart, raging, racketeering<br>Like some cheap western gangster 'muscling in,'<br>Apeing the arts in which I loomed a master:<br>Acting with arms as children play with toys:<br>Mouthing fierce phrases, pregannt with disaster,<br>To lure brief loyalty from brain-sick boys?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Can it be I who saw the vision splendid<br>Shaping before these ageing eyes of mine,<br>When half a world, before my day had eneded,<br>Hurtled its might against my stubborn Line?<br>The Line of Hindenburg! the natons raging<br>Before an avatar who reached the sky! ...<br>And now? - A hapless figurehead, fast ageing,<br>The mighty Hindenburg! Can this be I?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strange trick of Fate ... And yet, sometimes I wonder,<br>While factions rage and puny tyrants bray,<br>If victory might yet be snatched for blunder<br>Till gloriously dawned against The Day!<br>If - To what end? Youth seeks in other fashion<br>It's destiny. 'Tis world-worn age that drools<br>Of glories gone ... Enough to veil compassion<br>With weary tolerance. Poor dupes! Poor fools!</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>
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And all this mummery about me stirring?
Can it be I, lord of high feats of arms,
Smiling complancence on a rabble's blunders,
Counting a mountebank amongst my peer..."></div>
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