<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392932" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballade of the Traffickers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Up goes the price of our bread-- <br>Up goes the cost of our caking! <br>People must ever be fed; <br>Bakers must ever be baking. <br>So, though our nerves may be quaking, <br>Dumbly, in arrant despair, <br>Pay we the crowd that is taking <br>All that the traffic will bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Costly to sleep in a bed! <br>Costlier yet to be waking! <br>Costly for one who is wed! <br>Ruinous for one who is raking! <br>Tradespeople, ducking and draking, <br>Charge you as much as they dare, <br>Asking, without any faking, <br>All that the traffic will bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Roof that goes over our head, <br>Thirst so expensive for slaking, <br>Paper, apparel, and lead-- <br>Why are their prices at breaking? <br>Yet, though our purses be aching, <br>Little the traffickers care; <br>Getting, for chopping and steaking, <br>All that the traffic will bear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">L'ENVOI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Take thou my verses, I pray, King, <br>Letting my guerdon be fair.<br>Even a bard must be making <br>All that the traffic will bear.</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=392932" data-title="Ballade of the Traffickers de Franklin P. Adams" data-description="Up goes the price of our bread-- Up goes the cost of our caking! People must ever be fed; Bakers must ever be baking. So, though our nerves may be quaking, Dumbly, in arrant despair, Pay we the crowd that is taking All that the traffic will..."></div> </div> </div>

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