<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357788" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Alternative - 1908</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If, some day, you should find me, cold and stark <br>If you should stumble o'er my lifeless clay<br>In some still thoroughfare or public park<br>And sadly say:<br>'Alack, and had he lived, as like as not<br>He'd reigned with Bent!' I should not care a jot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>If I should die in some by-way obscure,<br>And you should come across my silent corse<br>In its last sleep, my spirit would - be sure <br>Know no remorse.<br>'Twere better that I thus had ceased to live<br>If life with Bent were the alternative.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I say, if I should die, and all alone;<br>And, dying thus, escape the wiles of Bent;<br>O'er my remains I'd have you make no moan,<br>Nor yet lament.<br>But let relief be mingled with your woe;<br>And murmur o'er my clay, ''Twere better so.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Nay, if you came, as in my bier I lay,<br>And sald, 'Who knows? If this had not occurred' <br>I should arise in my grave-clothes and say,<br> 'Don't be absurd!'<br>And, being safely out of Tommy's reach,<br>I'd probably get out and make a speech.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I'd tell you, 'Better have a monument<br>Above my head and, coffined, lie at rest<br>Than live in some Cabinet with Bent<br>Upon my chest.'<br>And, having said all that was to he said,<br>I should continue being very dead.</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=357788" data-title="The Alternative - 1908 de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="If, some day, you should find me, cold and stark If you should stumble o'er my lifeless clay In some still thoroughfare or public park And sadly say: 'Alack, and had he lived, as like as not He'd reigned with Bent!' I should not care a jot. If ..."></div> </div> </div>

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