<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357480" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>But</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tho we seem to reach the turning<br>And the Government is yearning<br>To brings us swift releif, and make a cut<br>In the burden of the taxes,<br>As fond hope within us waxes<br>Sounds, like the knell of doom, the fatal 'but.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, that stultifying 'but'!<br>Every avenue is shut<br>That leads to that Nirvana that men must believe in still;<br>And a tantalising star<br>Gleams as ever yet afar,<br>As we trudge the weary, winding road that ever goes uphill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who can doubt the skies are clearing?<br>Who can doubt good days are nearing?<br>We are climbing from depression's gloomy rut.<br>Now from tax relief we'll borrow<br>Gladness, and, today, tomorrow<br>At the latest, end our sorrow surely - but -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, the aggravating 'but'!<br>When the poor tax-paying mutt<br>Builds his pretty house of dreams where gold becomes a glut,<br>Some prosaic politician<br>Coldly lights the whole position<br>With the cold, hard light of truth, and dreams go phut!</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=357480" data-title="But de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Tho we seem to reach the turning And the Government is yearning To brings us swift releif, and make a cut In the burden of the taxes, As fond hope within us waxes Sounds, like the knell of doom, the fatal 'but.' Oh, that stultifying 'but'! Every ..."></div> </div> </div>

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