<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360542" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ashore At Dover</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On landing, the first voice one hears is from <br>An English police-constable; a man <br>Respectful, conscious that at need he can <br>Enforce respect. Our custom-house at home <br>Strict too, but quiet. Not the foul-mouthed scum <br>Of passport-mongers who in Paris still <br>Preserve the Reign of Terror; not the till <br>Where the King haggles, all through Belgium. <br>The country somehow seems in earnest here, <br>Grave and sufficient:—England, so to speak; <br>No other word will make the thing as clear. <br>“Ah! habit,” you exclaim, “and prejudice!” <br>If so, so be it. One don't care to shriek, <br>“Sir, this shall be!” But one believes it is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dante+Gabriel+Rossetti">Dante Gabriel Rossetti</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=360542" data-title="Ashore At Dover de Dante Gabriel Rossetti" data-description="On landing, the first voice one hears is from An English police-constable; a man Respectful, conscious that at need he can Enforce respect. Our custom-house at home Strict too, but quiet. Not the foul-mouthed scum Of passport-mongers who in P..."></div> </div> </div>

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