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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357793" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Apologist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear friends, I'm Deakin....<br>No; no mistake,<br>You're wide awake.<br>It's ALF that's speakin'...<br>I wish to make<br>A few remarks about - Eh? What,<br>O, no; I'm not<br>The least bit changed.<br>It's been arranged -<br>You understand?<br>Between these gentlemen and me.<br>We fused, you see,<br>For the - er - welfare of the land....<br>Come, gentlemen! I do insist<br>I am the same!<br>I'm DEAKIN, the Protectionist.<br>And I declare I'm not to blame.<br>There never has been any change in me.<br>It's all arranged.... We fused, you see.<br>No harm to fuse.<br>And I am certain you'll excuse<br>Us all, when once you fairly grasp the fact<br>That this arrangement is a patriot's act.<br>'Twas neither somersault nor slip;<br>'Twas statesmanship....<br>Yes, yes. Joe Cook<br>And others took<br>A pledge.<br>As I allege,<br>Henceforth to vote Protection to a man....<br>Well, yes; they ran<br>Freetrade - some years ago;<br>But they won't advocate it now. Oh, no!...<br>I say again I've not changed in the least.<br>I leave that all to them.<br>Their love for the - er - tariff has increased.<br>Ahem!....<br>What? Wobblers? Nay!<br>Ah, do not blame them, pray!<br>These gentlemen are neither false nor weak;<br>But my good friends.<br>And they will make amends.<br>A light has broken on them, so to speak.<br>They're all - er - fiscal converts as it were....<br>Now, my dear sir!<br>If you will interject<br>Time and again,<br>How can the audience expect<br>Me to explain?...<br>I tell you I've NOT changed!<br>It's ALL ARRANGED!<br>Why, ever since I've been in politics<br>I've always advocated the - um - er ...<br>What nonsense! Sir!!<br>Tricks!<br>ME!!!<br>I challenge you to prove my policy<br>Has ever been... Well, yes,<br>Yes, I confess<br>I used to call them names. But, don't you see,<br>That is a thing of ancient history....<br>I tell you it has now all been arranged!<br>And I've not changed!...<br>O, well, well, I admit<br>I did abuse them - just a little bit.<br>'The wreckage of all parties' - That was it.<br>'Black Labor party' - yes, and 'Tories,' too.<br>I said that; true.<br>But can't you see? I ask you, please, to try.<br>They've changed, not I.<br>They've had a wash;<br>They've all been made<br>Whiter than snow ( I'm sure you understand):<br>And henceforth Anti-Sosh,<br>And not Freetrade,<br>Will be their party brand.<br>But, to return to my....Eh? Who's that speakin'?<br>I tell you I am Deakin!<br>Who dares to say I'm not?<br>I am the same brave, whole-souled patriot!<br>Iam! I AM!<br>if you will interject... O, d--!....<br>Er - gentlemen...I'd have you understand<br>We are a band<br>Of staunch Protectionists. If it appears<br>A trifle strange<br>That, after all these years,<br>These gentlemen should change,<br>I ask you, gentlemen, to please excuse<br>The Fuse.<br>You comprehend? I wave my magic wand,<br>And they respond<br>By bowing meekly to my fiscal creed.<br>Nay, nay! No Greed<br>For Office caused this unaccustomed sight.<br>'Twas...Country-love and - er - a Sudden Light.<br>These friends of mine have all come into line,<br>And, after this, their fiscal faith is mine -<br>That is...I mean to say<br>That mine is theirs until the Judgement Day.<br>I trust, good people, I have made it plain....<br>No, no; my friends will never change again....<br>I tell you, with my hand upon my heart,<br>They would no more trick me than, for my part, I'd ever do<br>So false an act, or think of tricking...you.</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>
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No; no mistake,
You're wide awake.
It's ALF that's speakin'...
I wish to make
A few remarks about - Eh? What,
O, no; I'm not
The least bit changed.
It's been arranged -
You understand?
Between these gentlemen and me.
W..."></div>
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