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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357423" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Another Fusion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's been fierce argument of late<br>In my vicinitee,<br>Between the Commonwealth and State,<br>For I fell out with me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am a sturdy Federalist,<br>A staunch Australian;<br>And I have waved an angry fist<br>At me, the States' Rights man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The argument began like this:<br>I to myself one night<br>Remarked: 'There's something sore amiss<br>That cries to be put right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'This argument 'twixt Commonwealth<br>And State must cease, 'tis plain.<br>'Tis interfering with my health<br>And rending me in twain.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Then, as a free,' myself replied,<br>'Elector of the State,<br>I hold my Rights can't be denied,<br>And I've been wronged of late.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The Commonwealth's extravagance' <br>'Hold on,' I said, 'hold on!<br>A fool could tell you at a glance<br>Where all the money's gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Of late the States' expenditure<br>Has risen high and higher.'<br>'What rot,' me thought. 'That's pretty pure!'<br>Then shouted, 'I'm a liar!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I rose to smite the Fed'ralist<br>And - what do you suppose? <br>I found, with my avenging fist,<br>The States' Rights person's nose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet, it did seem strange, because<br>Though, truly, as I've said,<br>I hit the State elector, 'twas<br>The Federal nose that bled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'See here,' I said, 'this game won't do.<br>We'll have to stop and think.<br>There's something wrong with me and you.<br>Let's go and have a drink.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We entered, without further hitch,<br>A pub across the way,<br>And had a single drink, for which<br>We both appeared to pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Enough of this!' the States' man brayed.<br>'You asked me over here<br>To have a drink, and when I've paid,<br>You drink the bloomin' beer!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Nay,' quoth the Fed'ralist, 'I think<br>You err. To me 'tis clear<br>I paid the money for the drink,<br>And you consumed the beer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I don't know what you are to me,<br>A foe, or friend, or brother.<br>To settle it I think I - we <br>YOU better have another.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We had another. Then we sat<br>Awhile, morose and mute;<br>Then drifted into friendly chat<br>About our late dispute.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I think I see a point we've missed,<br>And that suggests a plan.'<br>At length said I, the Fed'ralist,<br>To Me, the States' Rights man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It may seem strange to you at first;<br>We both wear one same hat,<br>We have one coat, one shirt, one thirst;<br>Why should we stop at that?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'To buy two drinks to quench one thirst<br>Is utterly absurd;<br>Unless, of course, you're on a burst<br>Or jag (excuse the word).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'But, since, we're one in thirst and dress<br>Why not be one in view?<br>I can't see why we don't possess<br>But one opinion too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'For I begin to think 'tis true,<br>Whatever else we be,<br>That while I'm virtually you<br>You're practically me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'We're both one man. It's all a fake!<br>You're me, and I am you;<br>Though politicians try to make<br>Us think that we are two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And if a thing suits one it should,<br>Quite clearly, suit the two.<br>And if this Federation's good<br>For me, it's good for you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">''Tis folly that we two should fight,<br>And wrangle, and abuse;<br>So, seeing things in this new light,<br>It's up to us to fuse.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We fose forthwith, I'm pleased to say,<br> We're now a single man. <br>And that man is, from now, alway,<br> A good Austral-i-an.</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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In my vicinitee,
Between the Commonwealth and State,
For I fell out with me.

I am a sturdy Federalist,
A staunch Australian;
And I have waved an angry fist
At me, the States' Rights man.

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