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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425027" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eulogy on a London Jobber</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now profit seems a dirty word, <br>or so some fine folk say! <br>but as I feel that is absurd, <br>at stocks and shares I play.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bold timing’s ever right - you ‘eard, -<br>it never fails to pay! <br>Old Boy, my judgement’s never erred, <br>there’s no one can gainsay! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I deal in scraps, true size or block, <br>game in my box I sit, <br>I feel perhaps too wise, poor cock, -<br>tame brokers ‘elp a bit! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should button seek to shop ‘is stock, <br>I’m ‘ere to ‘elp ‘im do it, <br>for every joker I would mock, <br>rehocking at a profit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I always buy at bottom rock, <br>at the top, I ‘op it, <br>if you consider that I shock, <br>fortune’s fair - you’re forfeit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pit my wits, job round the clock, <br>each day the market’s ope, <br>there is no-one I’d rob or knock, <br>I won’t push paper, mope! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its all a question of control, <br>of bluff and double bluff! <br>As market maker I’ve my role, <br>the smooth comes with the rough! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I trade, and though scare bears may raid, <br>‘tis seldom that I’m caught; <br>and if, as said, I am well paid, <br>I’m just as seldom short! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whenever challenged or waylayed, <br>I’m never overwrought, <br>I’m cool, collected, calm and staid, -<br>For jobbing’s such a sport! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s all great fun, though true ‘tis said<br>its full of danger fraught, <br>but if I never am afraid, <br>‘tis ‘cause I am self-taught.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Democracy despises wealth, <br>aught but ‘ard labour spurns! <br>Jobbing’s just great, it ‘elps me ‘ealth, <br>I like to take those turns!  </div><div style="margin:10px 0">© Jonathan Robin robi3_0029_robi3_0000 XXX_JXX 12 January 1975</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Elegy on a London Jobber</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Around the pristine walls of neon glass<br>the London jobber posts by pillared cell, -<br>to take a turn, Old Boy, to buy or sell.<br>He shares his pitch with others of his class, <br>and pitches shares while brokers pell-mell pass, -<br>marks red to buttons blue as green as grass.<br>Bell rings. He takes the call which spells shell’s knell, <br>then calls the take, fulfilling function well, -<br>tied to the Old School system, - silly farce! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too many heads swell, barter gold for brass. <br>Though sun still shines, most squander hay - their bell<br>will toll, and toll-free shall machines excel, <br>matchless in matching bargains to surpass<br>those who for short hours, for fat pay, alas, <br>play both sides of the coin, bulls, bears, harass, <br>between fear, greed, prey – arbitrage cartel.<br>Hammered – Fate prepares a fond farewell <br>for all who take for granted “vie est belle! ”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">© Jonathan Robin robi3_0126_robi3_0000 XXX_JXX 28 November 1976</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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at stocks and shares I play.

Bold timing’s ever right - you ‘eard, -
it never fails to pay! 
Old Boy, my judgement’s never erred, 
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