<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508920" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tom Paine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An Englishman was Thomas Paine<br> Who bled for liberty;<br>But while his fight was far from vain<br> He died in poverty:<br>Though some are of the sober thinking<br> 'Twas due to drinking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet this is what appeals to me:<br> Cobbet, a friend, loved him so well<br>He sailed across the surly sea<br> To raw and rigid New Rochelle:<br>With none to say: 'Take him not from us!'<br> He raped the grave of Thomas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in his library he set<br> These bones so woe-begone;<br>I have no doubt his eyes were wet<br> To scan that skeleton.<br>That grinning skull from which in season<br> Emerged the Age of Reason.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Cobbet in his turn lay dead,<br> And auctioneering tones<br>Over his chattels rudely said:<br> 'Who wants them bloody bones?'<br>None did, so they were scattered far<br> And God knows where they are.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A friend of Franklin and of Pitt<br> He lived a stormy span;<br>The flame of liberty he lit<br> And rang the Rights of Man.<br>Yet pilgrims from Vermont and Maine<br>In hero worship seek in vain<br> The bones of Thomas Paine.</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=508920" data-title="Tom Paine de Robert William Service" data-description="An Englishman was Thomas Paine Who bled for liberty; But while his fight was far from vain He died in poverty: Though some are of the sober thinking 'Twas due to drinking. Yet this is what appeals to me: Cobbet, a friend, loved him so well He..."></div> </div> </div>

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