<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392911" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Plea</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Writers of baseball, attention!<br> When you're again on the job-<br>When, in your rage for invention,<br> You with the language play hob-<br>Most of your dope we will pardon,<br> Though of the moth ball it smack;<br>But-cut out the 'sinister garden,'<br> Chop the 'initial sack.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rake poor old Roget's 'Thesaurus'<br> For phrases fantastic and queer;<br>And though on occasions you bore us,<br> We will refrain from a sneer.<br>We will endeavour to harden<br> Ourselves to the rest of your clack,<br>If you'll cut out the 'sinister garden'<br> And chop the 'initial sack.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Singers of words that are scrambled,<br> Say, if you will, that he 'died,'<br>Write, if you must, that he 'ambled'-<br> We shall be last to deride.<br>But us to the Forest of Arden,<br> Along with the misanthrope Jaques,<br>If you cling to the 'sinister garden'<br> And stick to 'initial sack.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Speak of the 'sphere's aberration,'<br> Mention the 'leathery globe,'<br>Say he got 'free transportation'-<br> Though that try the patience of Job.<br>But if you're wise you'll discard en-<br> Cumbrances such as we thwack-<br>Especially 'sinister garden'<br> And the 'initial sack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Franklin+P.+Adams">Franklin P. Adams</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=392911" data-title="A Plea de Franklin P. Adams" data-description="Writers of baseball, attention! When you're again on the job- When, in your rage for invention, You with the language play hob- Most of your dope we will pardon, Though of the moth ball it smack; But-cut out the 'sinister garden,' Chop the 'in..."></div> </div> </div>

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