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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357790" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Anonymous Altruist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mysterious cove in the Customs <br>The boss, so to speak, of the Ban <br>I have blamed a good deal;<br>But I wronged him, I feel,<br>Since I've come to imagine the man.<br>When he censored some book that I wanted<br>I sneered at him once, I'll allow;<br>But, since I've given heed<br>To the life he must lead,<br>He has all my sympathy now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This mysterious cove at the Customs<br>Is clearly a martyr; that's sure.<br>On his shoulders he takes<br>Loads of sin for our sakes,<br>And he suffers to keep us all pure.<br>For he reads all the hot stuff imported<br>And never once threatens to strike,<br>Tho' he loathes it, no doubt.<br>Ah, my pity goes out<br>To him. Think what his mind must be like!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This anonymous cove at the Customs,<br>This storehouse for horrible stuff,<br>Is as venal, I'll bet,<br>As the rest of us, yet,<br>Does he whine that his job is too tough?<br>No. He keeps his identity secret,<br>His knowledge safe under his hat;<br>And he lurks all alone,<br>Unsuspected, unknown,<br>Such as the hangmen and heroes like that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This incredible cove at the Customs,<br>His duties are drastic and grim;<br>For, if human he be,<br>What is poison to me<br>Must be equally poison to him.<br>Yet, undaunted he seizes and scoffs it,<br>And perhaps throws a fit on the floor,<br>Doped with all the impure<br>Of the world's literature.<br>But he manfully comes up for more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This untouchable cove at the Customs,<br>He sneaks to his work in the dawn<br>And, in some secret lair<br>Reads the spicy bits there,<br>With his soul, as it were, all in pawn.<br>Pity, then, this official absorber<br>Of rank Rabelaisian lore<br>Who wallows in sin<br>To protect us, his kin.<br>Could an altruist ever do more?</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=357790" data-title="The Anonymous Altruist de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="A mysterious cove in the Customs The boss, so to speak, of the Ban I have blamed a good deal; But I wronged him, I feel, Since I've come to imagine the man. When he censored some book that I wanted I sneered at him once, I'll allow; But, since I..."></div> </div> </div>
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