<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425778" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Politician - Parody after Stephen SPENDER - Airman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Politician</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He will watch the poll with no indifferent eye, <br>most pitifully, -<br>not on those voters who once cheered him, now<br>will strain his brow.<br>Weapons men use, mud-slinging, smear, tapped telephone, <br>all these he’s known.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This aristocrat, superb, until instinct<br>with death close-linked, <br>had faced the amorphous crowd, almost had won<br>war on the sun, ...<br>til now, ... like Icarus mid-ocean drowned, <br>his hopes unfound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[c] Jonathan Robin parody written 7 August 1991 after Stephen SPENDER 1909_1995 - Airman</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Airman</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He will watch the hawk with an indifferent eye<br>Or pitifully: <br>Nor on those eagles that so feared him, now<br>Will strain his brow; <br>Weapons men use, stone, sling, and strong-thewed bow<br>He will not know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This aristocrat, superb of all instinct, <br>With death close-linked<br>Had paced the enormous cloud, almost had won<br>War on the sun; <br>Till now, like Icarus mid-ocean drowned, <br>Hands, wings, are found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stephen SPENDER 1909_1995</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> <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=425778" data-title="Politician - Parody after Stephen SPENDER - Airman de Jonathan Robin" data-description="Politician He will watch the poll with no indifferent eye, most pitifully, - not on those voters who once cheered him, now will strain his brow. Weapons men use, mud-slinging, smear, tapped telephone, all these he’s known. This aristocrat, s..."></div> </div> </div>

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