<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357494" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cobbers and Quids</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is youth not less pedantic, less absurd,<br>Less prone to value things of little worth<br>In failing to wax wrath about a word<br>That bears suspicion of a lowly birth?<br>All words have known their low and vulgar days <br>Known grime and poverty when they were young;<br>And many a proud and pompous modern phrase<br>Was once the plaything of a common tongue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But as we grow respectable and staid<br>Mere sound, to middle-age, parades as sense.<br>Grey slaves of precedent, we grow afraid<br>Of youth and all its sane inconsequence.<br>Forgetting words are no god-given things,<br>With queer intolerance we would insist <br>In terms to which the mould of ages clings <br>On purity that never did exist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Language is not the gift of any god;<br>Rude tribesmen made it when the race was young;<br>And as around the weary earth we plod<br>Still the illiterate enrich the tongue;<br>And still while careless youth goes gaily rid<br>Of age's caution, precedent and pence,<br>Better a cobber who'll lend half a quid<br>Than all the thrifty pedant's 'commonsense.'</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=357494" data-title="Cobbers and Quids de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Is youth not less pedantic, less absurd, Less prone to value things of little worth In failing to wax wrath about a word That bears suspicion of a lowly birth? All words have known their low and vulgar days Known grime and poverty when they were ..."></div> </div> </div>

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