<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506960" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Orator’s Complaint</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How many the troubles that wait<br>On mortals!—especially those<br>Who endeavour in eloquent prose<br>To expound their views, and orate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did you ever attempt to speak<br>When you hadn't a word to say?<br>Did you find that it wouldn't pay,<br>And subside, feeling dreadfully weak?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did you ever, when going ahead<br>In a fervid defence of the Stage,<br>Get checked in your noble rage<br>By somehow losing your thread?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did you ever rise to reply<br>To a toast (say 'The Volunteers'),<br>And evoke loud laughter and cheers,<br>When you didn't exactly know why?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did you ever wax witty, and when<br>You had smashed an opponent quite small,<br>Did he seem not to mind it at all,<br>But get up and smash you again?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If any or all of these things<br>Have happened to you (as to me),<br>I think you'll be found to agree<br>With yours truly, when sadly he sings:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'How many the troubles that wait<br>On mortals!—especially those<br>Who endeavour in eloquent prose<br>To expound their views, and orate.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Fuller+Murray">Robert Fuller Murray</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=506960" data-title="An Orator’s Complaint de Robert Fuller Murray" data-description="How many the troubles that wait On mortals!—especially those Who endeavour in eloquent prose To expound their views, and orate. Did you ever attempt to speak When you hadn't a word to say? Did you find that it wouldn't pay, And subside, feeling..."></div> </div> </div>

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