<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408626" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Give yourself a Show: New Year's Eve</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">TO my fellow sinners all, who, in hope and doubt,<br>Through the Commonwealth to-night watch the Old Year out,<br>New Year’s Resolutions are jerry-built I know,<br>But I want to say to you, “Give yourselves a show”.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You who drink for drinking’s sake, love for lust alone,<br>Thinking heaven is a myth and the world your own—<br>Dancing gaily down to hell in the devil’s dance—<br>This I have to say to you: “Give your souls a chance”.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You who drink because of shame that you think will last,<br>Or because of wrong done you—trouble in the past—<br>“Nothing left to live for now,” you will say, I know;<br>But you have your own self yet, give that self a show!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You who want all things on earth—money, love, and fame<br>Having the advantage of worldly place or name—<br>You who have more than you want, even than you know,<br>In the glorious New Year give someone else a show.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You, the mischief-makers all, who in secret glee<br>Love to tell the villainies of a scamp like me;<br>There are things he’ll never tell—things you’ll never know—<br>Look into your own lives first—give the man a show.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You, the politician, who, for jealousy or gold,<br>Or for mean ambition, sell, or see your country sold,<br>Pandering to the hollow crowd, toadying to the low,<br>For shame’s sake banish selfishness—give your land a show.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</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=408626" data-title="Give yourself a Show: New Year's Eve de Henry Lawson" data-description="TO my fellow sinners all, who, in hope and doubt, Through the Commonwealth to-night watch the Old Year out, New Year’s Resolutions are jerry-built I know, But I want to say to you, “Give yourselves a show”. You who drink for drinking’s sa..."></div> </div> </div>

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