<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357476" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Brightness Breaches and the Beak</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bright young thing: Thou on the beaches<br>Life is gay and pleasure laden<br>All in vain the law beseeches<br>Courtesy from man and maiden<br>When a car, adorned with beauty<br>Unadorned, swings down the road,<br>There's a certain civic duty,<br>There's a cop, and there's a code,<br>There's Dame Caution - stuffy ogress -<br>Who deplores your carefree progress.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bright young thing, who, with one finger<br>Nonchalantly on the steering,<br>(Ever indisposed to linger)<br>Down the beach road goes careering -<br>Youth's high claims need no endorsement,<br>Ever at convention scoffing;<br>But the fiends of law-enforcement<br>Lurk obscurely in the offing,<br>Prone to pounce on any stir made<br>Even by a scorching mermaid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bright young thing: Life can be brighter<br>When devoid of traffic danger.<br>E'en this poor pedestrian blighter,<br>E'en that slow and aged stranger<br>Has some right to go on living,<br>On this earth superfluous lagging.<br>But not the Law, so far forgiving,<br>Tires of its paternal nagging,<br>Ill-content to look askance<br>On sun-tanned insouciance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bright young thing upon the beaches,<br>Youth is urgent, youth is eager.<br>But no more the Law beseeches<br>With its admonitions meagre<br>Your observance of its ruling,<br>Your respect for cop, and Code,<br>But, if you must still go fooling,<br>'Stepping on it' up the road,<br>At its end, for flapper, shiek,<br>Lurks, relentlessly, The Beak.</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=357476" data-title="Brightness Breaches and the Beak de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Bright young thing: Thou on the beaches Life is gay and pleasure laden All in vain the law beseeches Courtesy from man and maiden When a car, adorned with beauty Unadorned, swings down the road, There's a certain civic duty, There's a cop, and the..."></div> </div> </div>

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