<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414361" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Only Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The stork was misdirected when<br>I was born; I should have been<br>one of the titled gentlemen <br>with wealth approaching the obscene.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The foolish bird delivered me.<br>By malice or by accident<br>into the sort of family<br>not known to the establishment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although my instincts are refined<br>befitting an aristocrat.<br>When I grew up I was to find <br>my father was no plutocrat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I was forced to earn my crust<br>like any other working man.<br>No wide estates were held in trust.<br>That wretched bird fouled up the plan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I should have been a titled man<br>a scion of nobility. <br>But one must do the best one can<br>although ones born to poverty</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The only title I can claim<br>is that I am a gentleman.<br>I’ll never be a household name.<br>Though I am proud to say I can</div><div style="margin:10px 0">do anything a duke can do.<br>Except sit in the House of Lords.<br>I do not think I would want to<br>be bound to follow their accords.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An independent gentleman<br>is what I am content to be. <br>Although the stork messed up the plan<br>I must accept I’m only me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(5-Nov-07)</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=414361" data-title="Only Me de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="The stork was misdirected when I was born; I should have been one of the titled gentlemen with wealth approaching the obscene. The foolish bird delivered me. By malice or by accident into the sort of family not known to the establishment. Altho..."></div> </div> </div>

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