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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365904" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Changing of the Guard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They had briefed us out by Sirius<br>Before the stellar war<br>When the Rogons and Teresans<br>Blasted atoms at the core; <br>And the by-station called Sargon was<br>Left glowing in the night<br>As a lesson to us Lidyans: <br>‘Defy us - and we fight! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was known among the planets<br>Scattered twenty parsecs wide, <br>That the distant planet Akron<br>Was abysmal in its pride, <br>Our infiltrators were Germals, <br>And they told us, without doubt, <br>That the scientists on Akron<br>Were about to blast them out! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They had built some great contrivance<br>In a country known as France, <br>Blasting protons at each other<br>Just to see if they could dance, <br>But the chance of anti-matter being<br>Spawned is our concern, <br>We could travel there to stop them, <br>Or just watch their planet burn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They're like children in a playpen<br>Thinking everything is fine, <br>And they nod and smile at danger<br>Like a strange but new-laid wine, <br>But they have no understanding<br>When they try to act like God, <br>That creating anti-matter would<br>Destroy the earth they trod.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the blast would take their planet, <br>And the blast would take their moon, <br>It would spread out in its violence for<br>One single afternoon, <br>It could gobble up the planets<br>That revolved around their sun, <br>And feeding on the solar rays<br>Might take out everyone! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We turned our battle-fleet to cruise<br>On through the universe, <br>Engaged the ion drive and set<br>The warp to speed our force, <br>We knew we had to navigate<br>Out through the Hellyan Maze<br>And that some would never make it, <br>Though our years would pass as days! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It must be two thousand years since we<br>Had visited them last, <br>Found the people raw and primitive, <br>No sense of peace, nor class, <br>So we trained a City State the use<br>Of armies, skilled and hard, <br>And we left them there, the Romans<br>As the one Praetorian Guard! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the Germals lived beside them<br>And they measured every move, <br>Would report at each millennium<br>If things did not improve, <br>Then they built this great Collider<br>With their puny science skills, <br>And they laughed at the doomsayers, said: <br>‘It's ignorance that kills! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So we're coasting in there slowly now<br>And through the Milky Way, <br>A thousand nuclear battlecraft, <br>There's not much more to say; <br>We must, before their folly<br>Leaves them permanently scarred<br>Make our way to planet Akron<br>For the Changing of the Guard! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">25 March 2012</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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Before the stellar war
When the Rogons and Teresans
Blasted atoms at the core; 
And the by-station called Sargon was
Left glowing in the night
As a lesson to us Lidyans: 
‘Defy us - and we fight! '

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