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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357842" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Crisis</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be-wigged and gowned, the Speaker frowned,<br>And his frown was ill to see.<br>'Oddsfish!' he spake, 'Do I mistake?<br>Stands 'And' where 'Or' should be?<br>Be such the case, this land's disgrace<br>Shall shame our House no more.<br>Gadzooks, and by my halidame!<br>Call members hence, so our fair name<br>Be purged and shriven of ill-fame<br>And 'And' give place to 'Or'!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From divers nooks, with guilty looks,<br>The mumbling members came;<br>With wimpering wails they gnawed their nails<br>And slunk in snivelling shame;<br>From party rooms, as from dank tombs,<br>From crypt and corridor.<br>The Speaker boomed, with beetling brow:<br>Yours was the sin! And, here and now,<br>I bid ye kneel and make the vow<br>To change yon 'And' to 'Or'!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They bore the Mace from its resting place<br>In the dungeon 'neath the stairs;<br>Silk-breeched, but game, the Speaker came<br>And set the carven chairs.<br>Then the great Black Rod, at the Speaker's nod,<br>Waved o'er them as they swore<br>By this and that, by book and bell,<br>That one and all, what e'er befell<br>Would take the vow, and keep it well;<br>To change the 'And' to 'Or'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now in his place, with chastened face,<br>The Premier rose and spoke.<br>They harked to him in silence grim<br>While tears they strove to choke.<br>With trembling hand he seized that 'And'<br>And cast it thro' the door.<br>And now, amid subdued applause,<br>The brave upholder of our laws,<br>Square in it's place withn the clause<br>Enthroned the rightful 'Or'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sighs of relief replaced their grief<br>As members breathed short prayers.<br>They bore the Mace to its resting place<br>In the dungeon 'neath the stairs.<br>Honor to these, our bold M.P.'s!<br>All patriots to the core!<br>With bated breath the tale unfold<br>To your son's sons when you grow old.<br>Their fame uphold ... The cost, all told,<br>Was twelve pounds, eight and four!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we poor hacks who yield the tax<br>Should we not be content<br>With these whose task was to unmask<br>That word malevolent?<br>Alas, who knows what weary woes<br>Might have best us sore<br>Had not that adamantine band<br>Upheld the honor of their land<br>By plucking out the craft 'And,'<br>And substituting 'Or?'</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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And his frown was ill to see.
'Oddsfish!' he spake, 'Do I mistake?
Stands 'And' where 'Or' should be?
Be such the case, this land's disgrace
Shall shame our House no more.
Gadzooks, and by my halidame!
Ca..."></div>
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