<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dictator</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Avaunt! What news is this I hear<br>Of portent grim and sinister?<br>Is he, whose words insult mine ear,<br>A mere, upstart Prime Minister?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Odds fish! These fellows hitherto<br>Wore no demeanor critical;<br>But, cap in hand, have sought my view<br>On all affairs political.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Sdeath! Has the caitiff not the sense<br>To be polite and affable<br>Like others, whose meek diffidence,<br>At times, was even laughable?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aha! I made them sore afraid!<br>They gave my schemes the preference,<br>And murmured: 'Thank you, Mister Wade,'<br>With low and seemly deference.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, I had but to raise my hand,<br>And ev'ry Fed'ral min-i-on<br>Sprang hastily to my command,<br>And bowed to my opin-i-on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas I that granted them the site<br>To build their pesky capital;<br>For, if approached with mien polite.<br>I'm not a fearsome chap at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twasq I dictated all their laws<br>And made State Frights substantially<br>Their shibboleth; I marked the flaws,<br>What time they schemed financially.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I bade them to the Conference;<br>They came with meek humility;<br>And there I filled them with immense<br>Respect for my ability.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now, this upstart Fisher man,<br>Intent on irritating me,<br>Has dared to moot a Fed'ral plan<br>Without conciliating me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Zounds! I have spoken! And I speak<br>With ominous obscurity.<br>Let him beware, I say! . . . Next week:<br>'Tis pregnant with - futurity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Next week! Be warned! Here, in my sleeve<br>Are certain things mysterious.<br>It they be loosened, by my leave. . . .<br>Aha! It will be serious!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">0, I have words of weight and stress<br>To tickle your auriculars.<br>Enough! . . . Watch handbills and the press<br>For further grim particulars.</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=357852" data-title="The Dictator de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Avaunt! What news is this I hear Of portent grim and sinister? Is he, whose words insult mine ear, A mere, upstart Prime Minister? Odds fish! These fellows hitherto Wore no demeanor critical; But, cap in hand, have sought my view On all affairs p..."></div> </div> </div>

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