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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510858" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poseidon's Law</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the robust and Brass-bound Man commissioned first for sea<br>His fragile raft, Poseidon laughed, and &quot;Mariner,&quot; said he,<br>&quot;Behold, a Law immutable I lay on thee and thine,<br>That never shall ye act or tell a falsehood at my shrine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Let Zeus adjudge your landward kin whose votive meal and sale<br>At easy-cheated altars win oblivion for the fault,<br>But you the unhoodwinked wave shall test--the immediate gulf condemn--<br>Except ye owe the Fates a jest, be slow to jest with them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye shall not clear by Greekly speech, nor cozen from your path<br>The twinkling shoal, the leeward beach, or Hadria's white-lipped wrath;<br>Nor tempt with painted cloth for wood my fraud-avenging hosts;<br>Nor make at all, or all make good, your bulwarks and your boasts.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now and henceforward serve unshod, through wet and wakeful shifts,<br>A present and oppressive God, but take, to aid, my gifts--<br>The wide and windward-opening eye, the large and lavish hand,<br>The soul that cannot tell a lie--except upon the land!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In dromond and in catafract--wet, wakeful, windward-eyed--<br>He kept Poseidon's Law intact (his ship and freight beside),<br>But, once discharged the dromond's hold, the bireme beached once more,<br>Splendaciously mendacious rolled the Brass-bound Man ashore....</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The thranite now and thalamite are pressures low and high,<br>And where three hundred blades bit white the twin-propellers ply.<br>The God that hailed, the keel that sailed are changed beyond recall,<br>But the robust and Brass-bound Man he is not changed at all!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From Punt returned, from Phormio's Fleet, from Javan and Gadire,<br>He strongly occupies the seat about the tavern fire,<br>And, moist with much Falernian or smoked Massilian juice,<br>Revenges there the Brass-bound Man his long-enforced truce!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</a><div class=q>
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His fragile raft, Poseidon laughed, and &quot;Mariner,&quot; said he,
&quot;Behold, a Law immutable I lay on thee and thine,
That never shall ye act or tell a falsehood at my shrine.

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