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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393004" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To W. Hohenzollern, on Discontinuing The Conning Tower</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">William, it was, I think, three years ago-- <br>As I recall, one cool October morning-- <br>(You have The Tribune files; I think they'll show <br>I gave you warning).</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I said, in well-selected words and terse, <br>In phrases balanced, yet replete with power, <br>That I should cease to pen the prose and verse <br>Known as The Tower <br>That I should stop this Labyrinth of Light-- <br>Though stopping make the planet leaden-hearted-- <br>Unless you stop the well-known Schrecklichkeit <br>Your nation started.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I printed it in type that you could read; <br>My paragraphs were thewed, my rhymes were sinewed. <br>You paid, I judge from what ensued, no heed . . . <br>The war continued.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And though my lines with fortitude were fraught, <br>Although my words were strong, and stripped of stuffing, <br>You, William, thought--oh, yes, you did--you thought <br>That I was bluffing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You thought that I would fail to see it through! <br>You thought that, at the crux of things, I'd cower! <br>How little, how imperfectly you knew <br>The Conning Tower!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You'll miss the column at the break of day. <br>I have no fear that I shall be forgotten. <br>You'll miss the daily privilege to say: <br>&quot;That stuff is rotten!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or else--as sometimes has occured--when I <br>Have chanced upon a lucky line to blunder, <br>You'll miss the precious privilege to cry: <br>&quot;That bird's a wonder!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, William, when your people cease to strafe, <br>When you have put an end to all this war stuff, <br>When all the world is reasonably safe, <br>I'll write some more stuff.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when you miss the quip and wanton wile, <br>And learn you can't endure the Towerless season, <br>O William, I shall not be petty . . . I'll <br>Listen to reason.</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>
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As I recall, one cool October morning-- 
(You have The Tribune files; I think they'll show 
I gave you warning).

I said, in well-selected words and terse, 
In phrases balanced, yet replete with power, ..."></div>
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