<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=390887" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Francois Villon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I were Francois Villon and Francois Villon I,<br>What would it matter to me how the time might drag or fly?<br>_He_ would in sweaty anguish toil the days and night away,<br>And still not keep the prowling, growling, howling wolf at bay!<br>But, with my valiant bottle and my frouzy brevet-bride,<br>And my score of loyal cut-throats standing guard for me outside,<br>What worry of the morrow would provoke a casual sigh<br>If I were Francois Villon and Francois Villon I?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I were Francois Villon and Francois Villon I,<br>To yonder gloomy boulevard at midnight I would hie;<br>'Stop, stranger! and deliver your possessions, ere you feel<br>The mettle of my bludgeon or the temper of my steel!'<br>He should give me gold and diamonds, his snuffbox and his cane--<br>'Now back, my boon companions, to our brothel with our gain!'<br>And, back within that brothel, how the bottles they would fly,<br>If I were Francois Villon and Francois Villon I!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I were Francois Villon and Francois Villon I,<br>We both would mock the gibbet which the law has lifted high;<br>_He_ in his meager, shabby home, _I_ in my roaring den--<br>He with his babes around him, _I_ with my hunted men!<br>His virtue be his bulwark--my genius should be mine!--<br>'Go fetch my pen, sweet Margot, and a jorum of your wine!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">* * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So would one vainly plod, and one win immortality--<br>If I were Francois Villon and Francois Villon I!</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> <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=390887" data-title="Francois Villon de Eugene Field" data-description="If I were Francois Villon and Francois Villon I, What would it matter to me how the time might drag or fly? _He_ would in sweaty anguish toil the days and night away, And still not keep the prowling, growling, howling wolf at bay! But, with my val..."></div> </div> </div>

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