<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=429740" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mephistopheles Perverted</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Or Goethe for the Times)<br>ONCE long ago lived a Flea <br>Who kept such a fine, fat King, <br>Not that he held with royalty, <br>But more for the appearance of the thing, <br>And gave his Majesty to hold <br>(Such pageantries are far too few) <br>A sword of ruby-hilted gold <br>That possibly might hack a cheese in two; <br>But lest this glory might begin <br>To prove the regency too far, <br>His thunderbolt they made of tin, <br>And changed his godship for another Star. <br>Thus when the Monarch drove abroad, <br>With stars like buttons round his chest, <br>God-fearing Fleas would all applaud, <br>And alien Lice be grudgingly impressed. <br>Such relics every Flea must flaunt, <br>If only as the final trump <br>That mocks Materialism's taunt, <br>Proving there's more in life than Suck and Jump. <br>Once long ago—but not so long— <br>A King went curing scrofula . . . <br>The chorus of this charming song, <br>I'm told reliably, is Ha, Ha, Ha.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kenneth+Slessor">Kenneth Slessor</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=429740" data-title="Mephistopheles Perverted de Kenneth Slessor" data-description="(Or Goethe for the Times) ONCE long ago lived a Flea Who kept such a fine, fat King, Not that he held with royalty, But more for the appearance of the thing, And gave his Majesty to hold (Such pageantries are far too few) A sword of ruby-hil..."></div> </div> </div>

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