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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=424885" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cropped Apologies to Rudyard Kipling</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you can fight Monsanto’s sterile sowing, <br>deny blight warnings, nor fear climate change, <br>if cash in hand exceeds debts most's greed's owing, <br>if you’re the early bird with worms in range.<br>If you stay steady when winds may be blowing<br>subarctic currents shiveringly strange, <br>if you can soar above false walls while knowing<br>true sharing's bliss which cheaps deep love's exchange.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you can fly your kite despite snow falling<br>avoiding kites' and kittyhawks' harsh call, <br>if you won't compromise with inner calling, <br>nor flash your feathers - pride before the fall.<br>If you can weather frost or luck appalling, <br>tail waggle far from gaggling geese, nor stall<br>friends' search for perch beyond the masses mawling, <br>refusing vested interests' greedy gall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you can keep your crops when all the nation <br>rails, vain assailing creepy crawly bugs, <br>If you can thrive when most lives' reputation <br>is knocked for skittles, stumped by snails and slugs, <br>If you can sow, show though you stay surrounded <br>by failing harvests sere upon the stem, <br>where hopes unfounded, speculations grounded, <br>face farmers who through jealousy condemn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If greenhouse gases can't delay your planting, <br>with fallow Brussels' edicts all ignored, <br>If CO² you compensate by chanting<br>an incantation to the heavens poured.<br>If snail trails slip upon your sensor networks, <br>if nano tech protects fields' fullest yield<br>which on the Futures markets harvests net perks<br>which from the tax collector are concealed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you resist the urge to emigration, <br>and stand your ground around world vision wide, <br>if neither outside show nor occupation<br>contradict the worth that's found inside, <br>if neither dissipation, narrow nation, <br>priorities are held, if you abide<br>in peace with self, nor fear self-revelation, <br>your's is free flight, by day and night hopes ride. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">If day by day you grow more give than taker, <br>remembering each offspring's offsprings, kind, <br>if all return to nest at rest, God's acre<br>in harmony despite the daily grind.<br>If you farm through the seasons, thanking maker<br>from man's pollution, safe solution find, <br>yours is the race, you, ace, may need pacemaker <br>for luck can turn, earn bridges burned behind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(c) Jonathan Robin 23 November 2007 revised and expanded 2 February 2009<br>Parody Rudyard Kipling - IF</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for previous version see below</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Cropped Apologies to Rudyard Kipling </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you can keep your crops when all the nation <br>rails, vain assailing creepy crawly bugs, <br>If you can thrive when most lives' reputation <br>is knocked for skittles, stumped by snails and slugs, <br>If you can sow, show though you stay surrounded <br>by failing harvests sere upon the stem, <br>where hopes unfounded, speculations grounded, <br>face farmers who through jealousy condemn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If greenhouse gases can't delay your planting, <br>with fallow Brussels' edicts all ignored, <br>If CO² you compensate by chanting<br>an incantation to the heavens poured.<br>If snail trails slip upon your sensor networks, <br>if nano tech protects your fields providing yield<br>which on the Futures markets harvests net perks<br>which from the tax collector are concealed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you can fight Monsanto’s sterile sowing, <br>deny blight warnings, nor fear climate change, <br>if cash in hand exceeds debts most's greed's owing, <br>if you’re the early bird with worms in range, <br>If you free farm through seasons, thank your maker<br>from man's pollution, safe solution find, <br>yours is the race, you, ace, may need pacemaker <br>for luck can turn, earn bridges burned behind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">23 November 2007</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q>
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