<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357655" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Laissez-Faire</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'd harbored them on hovels, and in dens,<br>Altho' in price they counted less than cattle,<br>Had they not still the right, that ws all men's,<br>To strive and in a place in life's stern battle?<br>Had they not still the gift of God's free air,<br>His glorious sun, and every freeman's birthright<br>To fight the snarling pack and snatch a share?<br>Why should the task be ours to set the earth right?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man may not win (we'd said) to earthly ease<br>Saving thro' strength, or birth, or lucky gamble.<br>Why, then, a truce to sentimental pleas;<br>Let us continue with the merry scramble<br>In which the valiant strong, to gain high place<br>Pulls down and climbs upon some weaker rival.<br>'Tis Nature's law. And thus a stalwart race<br>Is e'er upheld by glorious survival.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon the olden road to Jericho<br>We watched, not one, but myriads fall and sicken.<br>We grieved; but saw no duty to stoop low.<br>Were we accountable for all Earth's stricken?<br>Shrewdly we passed by on the other side,<br>Planning such schemes as trouble a man's mind most.<br>'Not ours to alter Nature's law,' we cried.<br>'Each for himself, and devil take the hindmost.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so the devil took them - not for death;<br>But to live on where want and squalor cherish<br>Undreamed-of evils, whose miasmal breath<br>So taints the air that all the race may perish.<br>Is it too late to stay the avenging hand?<br>Too late to hold at bay this savage Reaper<br>Men have invoked? Till all shall understand<br>And cry at last, 'I am my brother's keeper!'</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=357655" data-title="Laissez-Faire de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="We'd harbored them on hovels, and in dens, Altho' in price they counted less than cattle, Had they not still the right, that ws all men's, To strive and in a place in life's stern battle? Had they not still the gift of God's free air, His glorious..."></div> </div> </div>

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