<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357754" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Playtime</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brothers!<br>(I address myself to that chosen few - which includes you,<br>My dear reader - who<br>Are men of understanding, bright intellect and horse-sense, and to no others).<br>Brothers!<br>There comes one little period in the day<br>When each of us may say,<br>'Away!<br>Away with care and thoughts of toil and stress and pain!'<br>And, as we journey home in car or tram or train,<br>Let us leave office worries far behind,<br>Banish domestic troubles from the mind,<br>And just go gay.<br>Say,<br>Once a day,<br>For just a few brief minutes let us play.<br>Let us be joyous, and, with quip and quirk,<br>Forget the drudgery of daily work,<br>And, from this daily column<br>Banish the somnolent, the sad, the solemn.<br>Let us foregather, brothers, and discuss <br>Eliminating all the fume and fuss <br>The vagaries of our uncertain weather,<br>Let us commune together<br>Upon the steadfastness of politicians,<br>The fate of nations, and the strange conditions<br>Imposed on us in this, our daily life . . . <br>Mayhap, indeed, the wife<br>Waits home to greet our coming with a tale<br>Of household woes to turn a strong man pale;<br>Mayhap, forsooth, our business affairs<br>Have loaded us all day with heavy cares.<br>Leave all behind.<br>Shed, for a while, all trouble from the mind.<br>Let us<br>Discuss<br>The hot sock <br>And the short frock:<br>Of men and modes and manners let us talk,<br>Giving dull care a cunning miss in baulk.<br>We WILL be gay!<br>Just once a day!<br>We shall consider strikes in merry mood<br>And even joke about the price of food,<br>And all that sort of thing.<br>So it may bring<br>Joy to our hearts and to our worn minds ease.<br>I shall do all the talking, if you please,<br>And if, perchance, you cry, 'How bright!<br> How clever!'<br>Why, then, of course - However,<br>The thread of my discourse is somewhat broken,<br>But, brothers, I have spoken!</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=357754" data-title="Playtime de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Brothers! (I address myself to that chosen few - which includes you, My dear reader - who Are men of understanding, bright intellect and horse-sense, and to no others). Brothers! There comes one little period in the day When each of us may say, 'A..."></div> </div> </div>

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