<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374820" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Politician</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a moment when of you<br>A splendid hope I had to tell,<br>Believing 'Here is one man who<br>Will serve our waiting country well.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw you sedulous and keen,<br>I heard the burning words you spoke.<br>It seemed that you were hard and clean,<br>And rapier sharp your every stroke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then came success, and in a night<br>An impish thing you stood apart,<br>All empty-handed for the fight,<br>With worse, alas! an empty heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Success had spoiled you, said your friends,<br>It was not so, for naught was there<br>To spoil but means to petty ends.<br>At last men saw you bleak and bare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In those who give you grudging aid<br>These days, may we the spirits see<br>Who for the love of men would raid<br>The strongholds of iniquity?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are these the heroes high and true,<br>Who, seeing right with honest eyes,<br>Will risk their all in putting through<br>Democracy's stern Enterprise?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You had no wealth of love. You failed<br>For that. Your heart may never cling<br>To men upon their crosses nailed,<br>To brothers sadly travailing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+George+Dyson">Edward George Dyson</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=374820" data-title="To A Politician de Edward George Dyson" data-description="There was a moment when of you A splendid hope I had to tell, Believing 'Here is one man who Will serve our waiting country well.' I saw you sedulous and keen, I heard the burning words you spoke. It seemed that you were hard and clean, And rapie..."></div> </div> </div>

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