<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357690" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Monday Morning</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I often pause to contemplate<br>The sadly barren mental state<br>Of persons whom it is my fate<br>To meet on Monday morning.<br>They should be, after Sunday's rest,<br>Alert, clear-minded, full of zest;<br>But everywhere they are oppressed,<br>Bad-tempered, dull and yawning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I? I'm always strangely bright,<br>Primed with ideas and full of fight,<br>With brain alert and eye alight<br>With rare exhilaration:<br>All due, no doubt to my wise bent<br>To do no thing I should repent,<br>And to a Sunday wisely spent<br>In pious contemplation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I do not wish to set myself<br>Upon some loft moral shelf<br>And treat my brother man, poor elf,<br>To haughty patronising.<br>And yet I feel I have to say<br>That I regard the laggard way<br>That men approach their work this day<br>As utterly surprising.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, I could write, this gladsome morn,<br>With vigour of a man new-born<br>Rare verses, full of lilting scorn<br>About my fellow's failings;<br>Or I could write on politics<br>And heave a hundred verbal bricks,<br>Using the rhymster's thousand tricks<br>In homilies and railings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I resist; for, being kind<br>I know that human nature's blind<br>And weak and frail; I have no mind<br>To call down envious curses.<br>And, tho' I tremble on the verge,<br>I manfully resist the urge,<br>And sing, where I might shout and splurge,<br>These rather halting verses.</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=357690" data-title="Monday Morning de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="I often pause to contemplate The sadly barren mental state Of persons whom it is my fate To meet on Monday morning. They should be, after Sunday's rest, Alert, clear-minded, full of zest; But everywhere they are oppressed, Bad-tempered, dull and y..."></div> </div> </div>

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