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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Genesis of Gloom [Australian Variety]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once upon a time, in days remote,<br>A politician bought a vote.<br>The price he paid is not quite clear,<br>But probably a pot of beer<br>Secured his end. But he got in;<br>So folk excused this venial sin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Now if the thing had stayed right there,<br>We might have dodged a load of care.<br>But pots of beer soon failed to serve<br>The candidate of dash and nerve;<br>And, with cold cynicism, came<br>The urge to organise the Game.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Soon the political machine<br>Beheld the profit it might glean<br>Thro' gifts spread thro' electorates<br>To help the 'Outs' the 'Ins' frustrate;<br>While shrewd 'Ins', not to be outdone,<br>Increased the offers two to one.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Later, the craftiest M.P.'s<br>Perceived that loans from overseas<br>Might help them hand out cakes and ale<br>Upon a most colossal scale;<br>And Parties with each other vied<br>To spread their largesse far and wide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Railways were built from here to there<br>That served no purpose anywhere,<br>And public works that did not pay<br>Like mushrooms, sprouted in a day,<br>With promises were issues fought,<br>And whole electorates were bought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Millions and yet more millions flowed<br>To go the same old easy road. . . .<br>Till, with a dearth of easy cash<br>The game was up; and came the crash.<br>'Tis pitiful; but there you are.<br>With pots of beer in some back bar<br> This evil had its genesis</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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A politician bought a vote.
The price he paid is not quite clear,
But probably a pot of beer
Secured his end. But he got in;
So folk excused this venial sin.


Now if the thing had stayed right there,
We might hav..."></div>
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