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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357582" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Goophic Phantasm</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tho' I own I have no adequate proofs<br>Of this queer tale of the quaint old Goophs <br>The Goophs who dwelt in the land of Guph <br>Still, I think it's a credible tale enough<br>When applied to Goophs; tho' it's realised<br>That it couldn't occur to the civilised,<br>Sane men like us, for it's quite absurd,<br>And the silliest tale that ever you heard.<br>To us, 'tis a fantasy vain. But then,<br>Of course, we're superior, normal men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now a peaceful Gooph, when a-stroll one day,<br>Looked over a fence in a casual way;<br>And realised he was staring hard<br>At a pile of stones in a neighbor's yard.<br>'Now what,' thought he, 'are the stones there for?'<br>Then he suddenly shouted, 'My, this means war!<br>That pile in there is the very stuff<br>We use for war in the land of Guph!'<br>And from that day forth his strength was spent<br>In gathering stones for armament.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, the Goophs who heard him were sore afright,<br>And the news spread forth in a single night.<br>Wild rumors grew, till the land was rife<br>With tales of terror and coming strife;<br>And every Gooph hied forth in haste<br>To gather him stones from wood and waste,<br>From the hills afar and fields near by,<br>Till the price of stones went up sky high.<br>And they said, 'War's madness! It can't make sense.<br>But a Gooph must look to his self-defence.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Commerce languished; production waned;<br>Goophish relations grew co1d and strained;<br>And there wasn't a stone in Guph at all<br>To build a house, or a church, or a wall.<br>Each sat on his pile in his own backyard<br>And talked and shouted and argued hard,<br>Of nations and factions in 'isms' and schools.<br>(There is never a doubt of it, Goophs were fools).<br>Then someone foolishly heaved a rock;<br>And their world blew up with a horrible shock.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then their costly stones they flung to the air<br>With great abandon and little care -<br>These stones they valued, they cast them about<br>Till a number of Goophs were knocked right out.<br>And the land of Guph grew loud with groans;<br>And the end of it all was a litter of stones.<br>And nobody knew what they started it for,<br>And nobody profited. Still, 'twas war,<br>Mere Guphic insanity, Goophish fuss,<br>And, of course, it couldn't occur to us.</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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Of this queer tale of the quaint old Goophs 
The Goophs who dwelt in the land of Guph 
Still, I think it's a credible tale enough
When applied to Goophs; tho' it's realised
That it couldn't occur to the civilis..."></div>
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