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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357571" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gentlemen!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gentlemen! a politician,<br>One who values his position,<br>Stands, with easy confidence,<br>Here before you on the fence.<br>For he knows full well, good friends,<br>All your aims and all your ends;<br>And that these you may attain<br>He will strive with might and main.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Gentlemen! my sole ambition<br>Is to see that your condition<br>Shall continue to improve;<br>Wherefore I shall shortly move<br>For a special grant to buy<br>Extra bedding for your sty <br>Force it from the Government<br>For the folk I represent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Gentlemen! You crave nutrition;<br>And I hold my high position<br>By your will and by your votes.<br>Pollard you shall have, and oats!<br>And I know you'll vote for me<br>In elections yet to be,<br>While I cater for your needs,<br>Promising yet further feeds.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Gentlemen! The Opposition,<br>By its frequent repetition<br>Of base lies would have you think<br>They'd increase your food and drink.<br>Friends, their secret aim, I know,<br>Is to cut your rations low,<br>And, while they but sneer and scoff,<br>It is we who fill your trough!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Gentlemen! This talk of 'Nation'<br>Is a vile abomination!<br>You are asked to sacrifice<br>Food and swill, and pay a price<br>For a shibboleth like that!<br>You are asked to give your fat<br>That your children, by-and-bye,<br>May possess a better sty!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Gentlemen! The aspiration<br>To build up a mighty nation<br>Is a question far too big<br>For an ordinary pig.<br>Truly, we don't care a damn,<br>When we're bacon, pork or ham,<br>What the fate of pigs may be.<br>Let 'em root the same as we!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Gentlemen! This tortured question<br>Gives you mental indigestion.<br>Such vague things you do not heed.<br>Food in plenty is your need.<br>In my place in Parliament<br>It is you I represent;<br>And I'll face all vile affronts<br>For your sakes! (Delighted grunts.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Gentlemen! The proposition<br>For the honest politician<br>Is: 'Can I secure more oats<br>For the folk who give me votes?<br>Can I fill their troughs, and give<br>Mush to them, that I may live?'<br>To that end he should employ<br>All his art. (Loud squeals of joy.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Gentlemen! A politician<br>With my knowledge and position<br>Knows full well that such as you<br>Take the plain, right-thinking view;<br>For himself each fatted pig,<br>And for all the rest - a fig!<br>Gentlemen, I greet your ranks,<br>And accept your grunt of thanks.</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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One who values his position,
Stands, with easy confidence,
Here before you on the fence.
For he knows full well, good friends,
All your aims and all your ends;
And that these you may attain
He will strive with might and ma..."></div>
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