<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357615" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>If It's Modern It's Right</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the Mediterranean shore,<br>In the days of the cohorts and legions,<br>When oodles of rain used to pour<br>O'er the old agricultural regions,<br>When a deluge came thundering down -<br> Tho' the vineyards of Rome did not need it -<br>Men cocked a shrewd eye<br>At the lowering sky<br>And agreed that the gods had decreed it.<br>And they said to themselves: 'There is not the least doubt<br>That's Jupiter Pluvius pouring it out.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the restless old world forged ahead,<br>And men waxed in wisdom and reason;<br>An in bluff, Merrie England, 'tis said,<br>When a deluge came down out of season,<br>And rotted their 'turmuts,' their 'spuds',<br>Mangelwursts and similar riches,<br>The wise of the land<br>Saw black magic at hand,<br>So they sizzled a couple of witches.<br>And they said to themselves, 'There be not the least doubt,<br>They hags can cast spells for a deluge or drought.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But progress moved onward, and soon<br>Men derided the cult of witch-burning;<br>And, in times of great floods, 'twas the moon<br>Caused it all, said the men of deep learning.<br>And they proved, since she governs the tides,<br>She must govern all water and weather.<br>So men turned to this new view,<br>Since 'twas novel and new,<br>And they scrapped old beliefs altogether,<br>For they said to themselves, 'There is not the least doubt,<br>Lest the moon's on her back she must spill water out.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we moderns, of course, high of brow,<br>Are amused by these crude superstitions.<br>We are guided by scientist now <br>Astronomers, mathematicians.<br>'Tis sunspots, as now we know well,<br>Cause phenomenal floods and such troubles;<br>But there isn't much harm;<br>So still your alarm,<br>For it's only old Sol blowing bubbles.<br>But I say to myself, 'Can there be any doubt<br>That a brief hundred years sees this theory out?'</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=357615" data-title="If It's Modern It's Right de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="By the Mediterranean shore, In the days of the cohorts and legions, When oodles of rain used to pour O'er the old agricultural regions, When a deluge came thundering down - Tho' the vineyards of Rome did not need it - Men cocked a shrewd eye At t..."></div> </div> </div>

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