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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>BÉranger's "broken fiddle"</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, there, poor dog, my faithful friend,<br> Pay you no heed unto my sorrow:<br>But feast to-day while yet you may,--<br> Who knows but we shall starve to-morrow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Give us a tune,&quot; the foemen cried,<br> In one of their profane caprices;<br>I bade them &quot;No&quot;--they frowned, and, lo!<br> They dashed this innocent in pieces!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This fiddle was the village pride--<br> The mirth of every fête enhancing;<br>Its wizard art set every heart<br> As well as every foot to dancing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How well the bridegroom knew its voice,<br> As from its strings its song went gushing!<br>Nor long delayed the promised maid<br> Equipped for bridal, coy and blushing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why, it discoursed so merrily,<br> It quickly banished all dejection;<br>And yet, when pressed, our priest confessed<br> I played with pious circumspection.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And though, in patriotic song,<br> It was our guide, compatriot, teacher,<br>I never thought the foe had wrought<br> His fury on the helpless creature!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But there, poor dog, my faithful friend,<br> Pay you no heed unto my sorrow;<br>I prithee take this paltry cake,--<br> Who knows but we shall starve to-morrow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah, who shall lead the Sunday choir<br> As this old fiddle used to do it?<br>Can vintage come, with this voice dumb<br> That used to bid a welcome to it?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>IX</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It soothed the weary hours of toil,<br> It brought forgetfulness to debtors;<br>Time and again from wretched men<br> It struck oppression's galling fetters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>X</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No man could hear its voice, and hate;<br> It stayed the teardrop at its portal;<br>With that dear thing I was a king<br> As never yet was monarch mortal!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>XI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now has the foe--the vandal foe--<br> Struck from my hands their pride and glory;<br>There let it lie! In vengeance, I<br> Shall wield another weapon, gory!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>XII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And if, O countrymen, I fall,<br> Beside our grave let this be spoken:<br>&quot;No foe of France shall ever dance<br> Above the heart and fiddle, broken!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>XIII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So come, poor dog, my faithful friend,<br> I prithee do not heed my sorrow,<br>But feast to-day while yet you may,<br> For we are like to starve to-morrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</a><div class=q>
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There, there, poor dog, my faithful friend,
 Pay you no heed unto my sorrow:
But feast to-day while yet you may,--
 Who knows but we shall starve to-morrow!


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&quot;Give us a tune,&quot; the foemen cried,
 In one of their profane caprices;
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