<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357934" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lean, Brown Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's a big, brown man in the hinterland<br>Whom the nation had forgot;<br>He's a stolid man and a patient man<br>And he does not talk a lot:<br>And the seasons frown or the seasons smile<br>As he toils to sow, to reap;<br>And as he toils he thinks the while;<br>And his thoughts are long and deep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>There's a silent man in the hinterland<br>A land of earth-stained clowns<br>To the little street-bred people cooped<br>In the noisy seaboard towns <br>In the towns where many a catch-cry's raised<br>And devious scheme devised,<br>Where the talkers reign, and thoughts, like men,<br>Grow smug and standardised.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>There's a quite man in the hinterland<br>Who scorns the shifts and tricks<br>Of the little men that talk and scheme<br>In the game of politics.<br>They have wooed him long with sly pretence<br>Thro' many a season past.<br>He was deemed a fool, and he suffered much;<br>But his patience ends at last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>There's a patient man in the hinterland<br>Who has scant time for words,<br>For the sounding phrase and the cries they raise<br>To sway the thoughtless herds.<br>Long has he toiled, this patient man<br>That the folk be fed and housed <br>But guile shall know no sterner foe<br>Than the patient man aroused.</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=357934" data-title="The Lean, Brown Man de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="There's a big, brown man in the hinterland Whom the nation had forgot; He's a stolid man and a patient man And he does not talk a lot: And the seasons frown or the seasons smile As he toils to sow, to reap; And as he toils he thinks the while; And..."></div> </div> </div>

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