<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=451102" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Procession</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The legislators pass along<br>A solemn, self-important throng!<br>Just raised from the common mass,<br>They feel themselves another class.<br>--But let them in the sunshine play<br>For every dog must have his day. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There moves the law's close-wedged band<br>The scourge and terror of the land!<br>Pandora's box replete with ills<br>Not half so baleful as their quills. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sons of Galen, ghastly crew!<br>Next pass in horrible review:<br>Arm'd with each instrument of death<br>To sap the citadel of Health.<br>Ten thousand times ten thousand fall<br>And physic's monster gulps down all. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bellona's sons, a num'rous train,<br>now darken all the dusky plain!<br>--War, their amusement, Death their trade<br>And the one sin, to be afraid.<br>They're but another dire disease<br>The soul from prison to release:<br>And man forlorn, as well may be<br>A prey to steel as malady:<br>Explore he must the mortal road,<br>The only diff'rence is the mode. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The men in black bring up the rear,<br>More warm to preach than folks to hear:<br>Each points to his own fav'rite road<br>As leading to the blest abode;<br>Proclaiming loud that all are wrong<br>Who don't around his banners throng,<br>Till, all confounded, FAITH retires<br>And frighten'd CHARITY expires.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Major+Henry+Livingston+Jr.">Major Henry Livingston Jr.</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=451102" data-title="The Procession de Major Henry Livingston Jr." data-description="The legislators pass along A solemn, self-important throng! Just raised from the common mass, They feel themselves another class. --But let them in the sunshine play For every dog must have his day. There moves the law's close-wedged band The sc..."></div> </div> </div>

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