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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357905" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Holy Constitution</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Read ye here the song as sung<br>By a chief named, briefly, Ung.<br>In the days when arguments were manly axes:<br>'O my people, this my Law<br>Is without defect or flaw,<br>And it governs ways and means and rates and taxes.<br>To amend it were unwise;<br>And if any tribesman tries,<br>He will meet with swift unerring retribution.<br>'Tis omnipotent, infallible, as all may recognise;<br>In short, it is out Noble Constitution.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When this Neolithic man<br>Gave the world his early plan<br>Of tribal laws to bind his nascent nation,<br>He opined, with fine conceit,<br>That his System was complete,<br>And the acme of all human legislation.<br>'For all time this Law shall stand!'<br>He decreed with manner grand<br>And a splendid disregard for evolution;<br>And the Tory crowd that followed, bore this tenet in its hand:<br>'You must never touch the Sacred Constitution.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the Party then in power,<br>To improve the shining hour,<br>Contracted quite a pleasing little habit:<br>Safely guarded in their 'right,'<br>If they fancied aught in sight,<br>Being 'constitutionally safe,' they'd grab it.<br>And they told the rank and file,<br>With a patronising smile,<br>When the People talked of 'wrongs' and 'persecution,'<br>'It is very, very sad, and, no doubt, your case is bad;<br>But we cannot tamper with the Constitution.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But meat-winners of the day<br> (Rabid Socialists were they)<br>By slow degrees arrived at this conclusion:<br>That the hide-bound Tory joss<br>Totalled mainly bluff and dross,<br>And its 'sacredness' was wholly an illusion.<br>Then with yells and growlings vile,<br>In their quaint primeval style<br>They planned a prehistoric revolution;<br>And with bits of tertiary rock they wrecked the Torries' smile<br>And, incidentally, the Constitution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All this happened, as you know,<br>Quite a long, long time ago;<br>And the world has since known Greece and Rome and Sparta,<br>Medes and Persians and such fools<br>Who were bound by cast-iron rules <br>Which reminds us of Old England's Magna Charta.<br>There's no doubt when England pressed<br>Hard to have her wrongs redressed,<br>And 'persuaded' John to sign the resolution,<br>That hard-shell old Tory King thought it quite a shocking thing<br>To meddle with the Holy constitution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So on, ever since King John,<br>As the world moves surely on,<br>And the People cry for reformation drastic,<br>You can hear right down the line<br>E'er the same old Tory whine<br>Protesting, 'It is most iconoclastic!'<br>'Tis the same old Tory way,<br>Same old 'everlasting nay.'<br>'Tis the same reactionary elocution.<br>But, who stood for 'Progress' yesterday is 'Retrograde' today;<br>And we've got to meddle with the Constitution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the Fatman waxes fat,<br>He's content to stop at that;<br>He will bless the Constitution and defend it;<br>But whene'er it needs repair.<br>'Tis the man who works his share<br>That uprises, patriotic, to amend it.<br>Oh, it's not the slightest use<br>When your 'right' becomes 'abuse'.<br>'Tis the law of legislative evolution<br>That every Great Reform is won, 'spite arguments abuse<br>By altering the blessed Constitution.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gentle Tory, prithee hark<br>Back to Ung of ages dark,<br>And defend his blessed code with sandstone axes.<br>Mayhap in that murky bourne<br>You'll escape a fate forlorn,<br>Full of New Protection and Progressive Taxes.<br>And you won't be sorely missed,<br>If you fall beneath some fist,<br>For young Progress shouts for men of execution.<br>And, as regards reform and such, WE'LL DO JUST AS WE LIST,<br>For it's Ours, this High and Holy Constitution.</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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By a chief named, briefly, Ung.
In the days when arguments were manly axes:
'O my people, this my Law
Is without defect or flaw,
And it governs ways and means and rates and taxes.
To amend it were unwise;
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