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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357837" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Clerk</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The unsoiled hand, the sleek, black coat,<br>The senile, ledger-haunted hours,<br>The knowledge that my freeman's vote<br>Is humbly cast to please 'the powers,'<br>A futile spite against the mass,<br>A small, weak hate of Labor's side,<br>These privileges of Our Class<br>I cherish with a puny pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sycophancy of the snob,<br>The day-long cringe, the life-long fear<br>That I may lose a steady job <br>That 'job genteel' I hold so dear <br>These be the splendid attributes<br>Of one who yearns to emulate<br>His master; and all work-soiled brutes<br>Regards with mean, reflected hate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not mine the arrogance of wealth,<br>No pride in honest labor mine;<br>But while I still hold life and health<br>My pet ambition is to shine<br>A small, pale star that faintly glows<br>In Fat's impressive firmament,<br>The while I earn mere food and clothes,<br>And help the boss to cent. per cent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ambition? E'en my timid soul<br>Dreams of a day when I shall rule;<br>When I may heckle and control<br>The trembling slaves of desk and stool;<br>When I shall be of Fat myself<br>Who now but dangles at his skirt.<br>A magnate! Armed with pow'r and pelf.<br>Meet recompense for eating dirt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I mark the lowly toiler rage.<br>'Resist!' he cries. 'Resist! Unite!'<br>The while I sue for patronage -<br>A deferential parasite.<br>Then to my aid comes Pride of Class,<br>I take my stand beside the Boss.<br>I earn his praise! .... Although, alas,<br>His gain, mayhap, will be my loss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For who would risk a master's ire <br>That deity who rules my life,<br>That god who may, in vengeance dire,<br>Snatch happiness from 'child' and wife?<br>'Rights!' shout the horny-handed. 'Rights!'<br>The dolts defy the pow'rs that be.<br>While I watch through the restless nights<br>And tremble for my salary.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh. what rash madness moves these clods?<br>E'en my own fellow serfs, alas,<br>Speak treason 'gainst the money-gods<br>And turn black traitors to Our Class.<br>Our Class! That genteel, cultured band,<br>Well-dressed, respectable, elite <br>The servile mind, the soft white hand <br>Patrician class of Collins~street!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cohorts of Collins-street, arise!<br>O legions, wake in Finders-land!<br>Let each pale hero rcognise<br>His class, and fight with might and mian.<br>Fight for the master sturdily!<br>What though his profit be our loss?<br>And let our watchword ever be,<br>Or Class! OUR BILLET, and OUR BOSS!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sleek, black coat, the unsoiled hand,<br>The proud assertion of the worm.<br>Behold the Class! Oh, noble band!<br>Mild, desk-worn yoemen of 'The Firm.'<br>With swagger of the over-dressed.<br>With meekness of the underpaid,<br>They flout the plaint of the oppressed,<br>And stare at Liberty, afraid.</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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The senile, ledger-haunted hours,
The knowledge that my freeman's vote
Is humbly cast to please 'the powers,'
A futile spite against the mass,
A small, weak hate of Labor's side,
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