<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=400564" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Shakespeare Memorial</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord Lilac thought it rather rotten <br>That Shakespeare should be quite forgotten, <br>And therefore got on a Committee <br>With several chaps out of the City, <br>And Shorter and Sir Herbert Tree, <br>Lord Rothschild and Lord Rosebery, <br>And F.C.G. and Comyn Carr <br>Two dukes and a dramatic star, <br>Also a clergy man now dead; <br>And while the vain world careless sped <br>Unheeding the heroic name -- <br>The souls most fed with Shakespeare's flame <br>Still sat unconquered in a ring, <br>Remembering him like anything. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord Lilac did not long remain, <br>Lord Lilac did not some again. <br>He softly lit a cigarette <br>And sought some other social set <br>Where, in some other knots or rings, <br>People were doing cultured things. <br>-- Miss Zwilt's Humane Vivarium <br>-- The little men that paint on gum <br>-- The exquisite Gorilla Girl . . . <br>He sometimes, in this giddy whirl <br>(Not being really bad at heart), <br>Remembered Shakespeare with a start -- <br>But not with that grand constancy <br>Of Clement Shorter, Herbert Tree, <br>Lord Rosebery and Comyn Carr <br>And all the other names there are; <br>Who stuck like limpets to the spot, <br>Lest they forgot, lest they forgot. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord Lilac was of slighter stuff; <br>Lord Lilac had had quite enough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gilbert+Keith+Chesterton">Gilbert Keith Chesterton</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=400564" data-title="The Shakespeare Memorial de Gilbert Keith Chesterton" data-description="Lord Lilac thought it rather rotten That Shakespeare should be quite forgotten, And therefore got on a Committee With several chaps out of the City, And Shorter and Sir Herbert Tree, Lord Rothschild and Lord Rosebery, And F.C.G. and Comyn Ca..."></div> </div> </div>

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