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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420918" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Friend of Humanity, and the Knife-Grinder</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FRIEND OF HUMANITY.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Needy Knife-grinder! whether are you going?<br>Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order--<br>Bleak blows the Blast;--your hat has got a hole in't,<br>So have your breeches!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>"Weary Knife-grinder! little think the proud ones<br>Who in their coaches roll along the turnpike-<br>-road, what hard work 'tis crying all day, 'Knives and<br>'Scissars to grind O!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>"Tell me Knife-grinder, how came you to grind knives?<br>Did some rich man tyrannically use you?<br>Was it the squire? or parson of the parish;<br>Or the attorney?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>"Was it the squire, for killing of his game? or<br>Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining?<br>Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little<br>All in a lawsuit?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>"(Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine?)<br>Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids,<br>Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your<br>Pitiful story."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>KNIFE-GRINDER.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>"Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, Sir,<br>Only last night a-drinking at the Chequers,<br>This poor old hat and breeches, as you see, were<br>Torn in a scuffle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>"Constables came up for to take me into<br>Custody; they took me before the justice;<br>Justice Oldmixon put me in the parish-<br>stocks for a vagrant.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>"I should be glad to drink your Honor's health in<br>A pot of beer, if you will give me sixpence;<br>But for my part, I never love to meddle<br>With Politics, Sir."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>FRIEND OF HUMANITY.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>"I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damn'd first--<br>Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance--<br>Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded,<br>Spiritless outcast!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Kicks the Knife-grinder, overturns his wheel, and exit in a transport of Republican enthusiasm and universal philanthropy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Hookham+Frere">John Hookham Frere</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=420918" data-title="The Friend of Humanity, and the Knife-Grinder de John Hookham Frere" data-description="FRIEND OF HUMANITY. "Needy Knife-grinder! whether are you going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order-- Bleak blows the Blast;--your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches! "Weary Knife-grinder! little think the proud..."></div> </div> </div>
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