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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510912" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ballad of the Red Earl</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is not for them to criticize too minutely the methods the Irish followed, though they might deplore some of their results. During the past few years Ireland had been going through what was tantamount to a revolution. -- EARL SPENCER</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Red Earl, and will ye take for guide<br>The silly camel-birds,<br>That ye bury your head in an Irish thorn,<br>On a desert of drifting words?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye have followed a man for a God, Red Earl,<br>As the Lord o' Wrong and Right;<br>But the day is done with the setting sun<br>Will ye follow into the night?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He gave you your own old words, Red Earl,<br>For food on the wastrel way;<br>Will ye rise and eat in the night, Red Earl,<br>That fed so full in the day?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye have followed fast, ye have followed far,<br>And where did the wandering lead?<br>From the day that ye praised the spoken word<br>To the day ye must gloss the deed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as ye have given your hand for gain,<br>So must ye give in loss;<br>And as ye ha' come to the brink of the pit,<br>So must ye loup across.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For some be rogues in grain, Red Earl,<br>And some be rogues in fact,<br>And rogues direct and rogues elect;<br>But all be rogues in pact.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye have cast your lot with these, Red Earl;<br>Take heed to where ye stand.<br>Ye have tied a knot with your tongue, Red Earl,<br>That ye cannot loose with your hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye have travelled fast, ye have travelled far,<br>In the grip of a tightening tether,<br>Till ye find at the end ye must take for friend<br>The quick and their dead together.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye have played with the Law between your lips,<br>And mouthed it daintilee;<br>But the gist o' the speech is ill to teach,<br>For ye say: &quot;Let wrong go free.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Red Earl, ye wear the Garter fair,<br>And gat your place from a King:<br>Do ye make Rebellion of no account,<br>And Treason a little thing?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And have ye weighed your words, Red Earl,<br>That stand and speak so high?<br>And is it good that the guilt o' blood,<br>Be cleared at the cost of a sigh?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And is it well for the sake of peace,<br>Our tattered Honour to sell,<br>And higgle anew with a tainted crew --<br>Red Earl, and is it well?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye have followed fast, ye have followed far,<br>On a dark and doubtful way,<br>And the road is hard, is hard, Red Earl,<br>And the price is yet to pay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye shall pay that price as ye reap reward<br>For the toil of your tongue and pen --<br>In the praise of the blamed and the thanks of the shamed,<br>And the honour o' knavish men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They scarce shall veil their scorn, Red Earl,<br>And the worst at the last shall be,<br>When you tell your heart that it does not know<br>And your eye that it does not see.</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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