<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508816" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Palace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grimy men with picks and shovels<br> Who in darkness sweat unseen,<br>Climb from out your lousy hovels,<br> Build a palace for the Queen;<br>Praise the powers that be for giving<br> You a chance to make a living.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet it would be better far<br> Could you build with cosy lure<br>Skyey tenements where are<br> Rabbit-warrens of the poor;<br>With a hope bright as a gem<br> Some day you might live in them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could the Queen just say: 'A score<br> Of rich palaces have I.<br>Do not make me any more,--<br> Raise a hostel heaven-high;<br>House the hundreds who have need,<br> To their misery give heed.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could she make this gesture fine<br> To the pit where labour grovels,<br>Mother hearts would cease to pine,<br> Weary men would wave their shovels.<br>All would cry with hope serene:<br> 'Little children, bless the Queen!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</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=508816" data-title="The Palace de Robert William Service" data-description="Grimy men with picks and shovels Who in darkness sweat unseen, Climb from out your lousy hovels, Build a palace for the Queen; Praise the powers that be for giving You a chance to make a living. Yet it would be better far Could you build with..."></div> </div> </div>

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