<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357639" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jim Of Maribyrnong</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were forthright days when Jim was born,<br>When they called a spade a spade.<br>And statesmen held in lofty scorn<br>he trickster's sticky trade.<br>For their eyes were clear and their views were strong,<br>And they'd be no party's too! <br>And big, bluff Jim of Maribyrnong<br>Learned wisdom in this school. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>For black was black, and white was white, <br>When good Victoria reigned,<br>And argument made no wrong right,<br>No demagogue explained <br>That good might ever come of wrong,<br>Or black be painted white, <br>When big, bluff Jim of Maribyrnong<br>Went out to fight the fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Twas thus Jim learned his politics;<br>And he's little changed today;<br>For he failed to learn those subtle tricks<br>That modern 'statesmen' play.<br>To aid the folk who'd suffered long<br>Thro' tyranny's base laws,<br>Marched big, bluff Jim of Maribyrnong,<br>Staunch for the Labor cause.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But times have changed a deal of late,<br>And the 'art' of politics;<br>And they say that Jim is out of date,<br>And will not learn new tricks.<br>But still unswayed by wrangling throng,<br>Forthright and conscience free,<br>Goes simple Jim of Maribyrnong<br>With his crude, blunt honesty.</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=357639" data-title="Jim Of Maribyrnong de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="They were forthright days when Jim was born, When they called a spade a spade. And statesmen held in lofty scorn he trickster's sticky trade. For their eyes were clear and their views were strong, And they'd be no party's too! And big, bluff Jim ..."></div> </div> </div>

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