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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365889" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bellman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">He rang it in the marketplace, <br>He rang it in the street, <br>Old Silas was the Bellman<br>In the village of Purfleet, <br>He'd rung the bell for sixty years, <br>He'd rung the bell for war, <br>He'd rung it for the harvest<br>But would ring the bell no more! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Mayor and all his councillors<br>Had met within the Hall, <br>Discussed the ponderous questions<br>That would bear upon them all, <br>Their gowns were trimmed with ermine<br>And the mayor, he wore his chain, <br>The solemn Majesty of State<br>Was heard in their refrain! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘We must dismiss the Bellman, '<br>Said the hoary Abel Creep, <br>‘He rings it at the strangest times, <br>I just can't get to sleep! '<br>‘Agreed, ' said Horace Fumblewit, <br>It's more than time enough, <br>I thought that he'd be dead by this…'<br>‘Hear hear! ' said Toby Gruff.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They called him to the chamber<br>And delivered him the score, <br>Old Silas staggered back in shock, <br>They'd rocked him to the core! <br>He raised the bell above his head<br>And gave a mighty ‘Clang! '<br>Then jumped up on their table<br>Where they sat, their ears rang! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘I've been the Bellman sixty years, <br>My father taught me then, <br>His father went before him, rang <br>The bell for Inkerman; <br>But way, way back before that time<br>My forebears had a stake, <br>They warned of the Armada, <br>Rang the bell for Francis Drake! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He stomped along their table<br>In his coarse old hob-nailed boots, <br>He silenced their authority<br>To rule in mean disputes, <br>For every time a councillor<br>Would seek to raise his voice, <br>The bell would drown his utterance, <br>It gave them little choice! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘There's been a Bellman in this burgh<br>Right back, before King John, <br>You think you petty underlings<br>Can rule once I am gone? <br>Your ancestors lie buried in<br>The gravel by the Church, <br>While mine live on in history…<br>I'll knock you off your perch! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He raised the bell and made it peal, <br>It rocked the ancient hall, <br>The walls shook with vibrations<br>‘Til the roof began to fall, <br>The beams came crashing down in a<br>Scenario from Hell, <br>‘Your time is not forever, ' cried<br>The man who rang the bell!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q>
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He rang it in the street, 
Old Silas was the Bellman
In the village of Purfleet, 
He'd rung the bell for sixty years, 
He'd rung the bell for war, 
He'd rung it for the harvest
But would ring the bell no more! 

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