<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=480473" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beggarliness</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cats march on to the backyard<br>Of my house and leave their kitten, <br>taking it for a safe haven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I come upon a dog<br>lying beside the walls of the school, <br>with its pups rolling over it, <br>I buy biscuits from a shop<br>and feed them with grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the rats pluck up courage<br>to hold jamborees in the porch, <br>I don’t beat them or drive them out<br>fearing to be infected with rat-fever.<br>But I put coleslaw for them to eat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When little lamps jump into my office room, <br>and let down their balls of dung, <br>I smile, lift them up and give them<br>to the girls of lower classes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I see beggars lame or blind, <br>I touch the coins in my pocket<br>but hesitate to give them; <br>as most of them tell tales of lies.<br>They get freebies from the Government<br>yet their list swells in trains and public places.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some who run private homes to orphans<br>send the inmates to beg in streets <br>But they beg from cinestars and the rich<br>with a printed receipt book in hand.<br>The old ones plead starvation<br>and go on cheating pliable public.<br>Some ladies and the differently -abled<br>roam to beg with letters in trains and buses.<br>Some criminals appeal for alms with appalling faces.<br>Terrorists too beg from the rich and cinestars<br>and demand donations without giving receipts. <br>Fake sages and seers receive funds from abroad<br>to frustrate the addicts from drugs <br>and the men and women garbless to meditate in halls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the beggars blockmail me<br>and curse me to have a dog’s life, <br>how can I purse my lips and refuse alms? <br> ----------</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rajendran+Muthiah">Rajendran Muthiah</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=480473" data-title="Beggarliness de Rajendran Muthiah" data-description="The cats march on to the backyard Of my house and leave their kitten, taking it for a safe haven. When I come upon a dog lying beside the walls of the school, with its pups rolling over it, I buy biscuits from a shop and feed them with grace. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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