<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357853" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dinkum Aussie Block</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What have we missed? Now he returns no more<br>We are left with but our blindness to deplore,<br>But, concentrating on his spats instead,<br>Missed all the lure of that impressive head.<br>Caricaturists, gazing at his feet,<br>Drew little else, and deemed the sketch complete;<br>Likewise cartoonists, whose gaunt fingers crept<br>Unconsciously to limn him as they slept.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we poor Aussies of the rough hewn 'dile,'<br>Think to salve our vanity the while,<br>Who said: 'Though we've a gargoyle for a face,<br>At least 'tis typical of our strong race' <br>Where are we now? Where is our last excuse<br>For owning features so unlike a Bruce?<br>The Bruce, round whom admiring artists flock<br>Because he owns the dinkum Aussie block.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He kept his block; and keeping it became<br>A classic type to spread his country's fame.<br>While we poor groundlings, with our eyes cast down,<br>Saw only feet to bolster his renown.<br>Could we not raise our eyes? And now, bereft<br>Of pride, we've but this consolation left;<br>Still humble members we - plain as we are <br>Of that proud race that claims him avatar.</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=357853" data-title="The Dinkum Aussie Block de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="What have we missed? Now he returns no more We are left with but our blindness to deplore, But, concentrating on his spats instead, Missed all the lure of that impressive head. Caricaturists, gazing at his feet, Drew little else, and deemed the sk..."></div> </div> </div>

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