<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413677" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Confident Dissident for J.T.Early</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">t</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I stand and gaze with wonderment. <br>The Gates of Gold and ivory<br>are slowly opening for me.<br> A rebel and a dissident.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What did I do that I deserve<br> admission to Valhallas halls? <br>What waits for me within those walls? <br>I only did my best to serve</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my fellow men as best I could<br>I bore no sword only my pen.<br>Tried to defend my fellow men<br> from tyrants as a writer should.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Defied the men who censured me.<br>The men who sought to rule force.<br>Because I upheld freedoms cause <br>I risked my life and liberty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They harried me by night and day<br> but still would not toe the line<br> I did my best to undermine<br> the lies they broadcast, in my way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although they could imprison me<br> and ban my words from being read<br>This action could not stop the spread <br>of my ideals of liberty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Accused of treason by the state.<br>They made a martyr out of me.<br>They were so blind they could not see.<br>The slowly moving hand of fate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which would destroy eventually.<br> The stranglehold they sought to keep<br>The people would rise from their sleep<br> prepared to fight for liberty.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so in time it proved to be<br>Their unjust rule was overturned.<br>A lesson that all tyrants learned.<br>Although it was too late for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Subjected to their cruelty <br>I had been starved and brutalised<br>Which left me partly paralysed.<br> Although I was at last set free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>I will not live long enough to see <br>my dreams of liberty come true<br>All that I have to leave to you, <br>My words my only legacy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The gates of gold and ivory <br>are open wide and I pass through.<br>It’s some thing which I have to do.<br>For once I act obediently.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I need not fear the consequence <br>I cast my rebel role aside<br>For here I have nothing to hide<br>Rewarded for my eloquence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">15-Dec-08</div><div style="margin:10px 0">http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</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=413677" data-title="Confident Dissident for J.T.Early de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="t I stand and gaze with wonderment. The Gates of Gold and ivory are slowly opening for me. A rebel and a dissident. What did I do that I deserve admission to Valhallas halls? What waits for me within those walls? I only did my best to serve..."></div> </div> </div>

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