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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384799" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ye Agents</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">These agent men! these agent men!<br>We hear the dreaded step again,<br>We see a stranger at the door;<br>And brace ourselves for war once more.<br>He bows and smiles. 'Walk in,' we say,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He smiles again. 'I come to-day,<br>Dear Madam, with a great invention;<br>And Sir, pray give me <br>your<br>attention;<br>Now here, you see, is something new,<br>And just the thing, my friends, for you.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>In vain we interrupt and say:<br>'We shall not buy of you to-day.'<br>'But, Madam, Sir, you have not seen<br>The beauties of this new machine;<br>When thus arranged, your old affair,<br>'Tis plain to see, is just nowhere.'<br>'No doubt,' I say; ''Tis very fine,<br>And quite superior to mine.'<br>This gives him courage. On he goes,<br>And every sentence glibly flows,<br>Until his lesson is repeated<br>To 'warranted if fitly treated.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Yes, new and fine, and grand,' we say,<br>'But still we shall not buy to-day.'<br>'But, Madam, Sir, pray list to reason,<br>'Twill buy itself in half a season;<br>You see the thing is bound to go.'<br>'Oh certainly, we see, we know,<br>But still we do not wish to buy.'<br>He turns and leaves us with a sigh,<br>And while we hasten to our labor<br>He goes and persecutes our neighbor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But lo! another follows on,<br>Before the last is fairly gone.<br>One day a reaper, next a mower,<br>And then a fanning mill, and sower;<br>Machines of all kinds 'neath the sun,<br>Each better than the other one;<br>A rocker for each dining chair,<br>A brace to hold the broom in air,<br>A book, just out, and you must buy<br>Or give a proper reason why.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>So if we sometimes turn away<br>Abruptly, Sirs, you must remember,<br>That we have heard your tale each day<br>From early Spring to late December.<br>Why! if we listened to you all,<br>And gave you the required attention,<br>I think ere long each one would call,<br>The 'county house,' the <br>best<br>invention.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1869</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ella+Wheeler+Wilcox">Ella Wheeler Wilcox</a><div class=q>
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We hear the dreaded step again,
We see a stranger at the door;
And brace ourselves for war once more.
He bows and smiles. 'Walk in,' we say,


He smiles again. 'I come to-day,
Dear Madam, with a great invention;
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