<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357927" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Kindly Copper</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, for that kindly copper<br>I knew long years ago,<br>A stalwart man and proper,<br>Crime's unrelenting foe.<br>He was for me a shield, a friend<br>Who sole concern was to defend<br>Such just rights as I know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My bedtime thoughts went with him<br>What time his forthright feet,<br>In slow and measured rhythm,<br>Patrolled his midnight beat;<br>And, knowing he was on my side,<br>I blessed him, snugly satisfied,<br> Our concord was complete.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now, tho' we've neglected<br>No duty, sought no change,<br>This friend I once respected<br>Half hostile grows, and strange.<br>They've made of him a hybrid thing:<br>And jobs we both dislike now bring<br>Him well within my range.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His stern eye holds suspicions<br>I feel I don't deserve<br>Re rules and requisitions<br>That fairly get my nerve.<br>And, when I motor thro' the land,<br>His great, prohibitive, red hand<br>Restrains my merry verve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They give him duties menial <br>Jobs that no proud cop asks;<br>So that he, once so genial,<br>No more in favor basks.<br>And I am quite convinced the pop <br>ularity of any cop<br>Must suffer thro' these tasks.</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=357927" data-title="The Kindly Copper de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Oh, for that kindly copper I knew long years ago, A stalwart man and proper, Crime's unrelenting foe. He was for me a shield, a friend Who sole concern was to defend Such just rights as I know. My bedtime thoughts went with him What time his fort..."></div> </div> </div>

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