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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510976" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Files</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Files <br>The Files -<br>Office Files !<br>Oblige me by referring to the Files.<br>Every question man can raise,<br>Every phrase of every phrase<br>Of that question is on record in the Files - <br>(Threshed out threadbare - fought and finished in the Files <br>Ere the Universe at large <br>Was our new-tipped arrows' targe - <br>Ere we rediscovered Mammon and his wiles <br>Faeza gentle reader, spent her-five-and-twentieth leader <br>(You will find him, and some others, in the Files). <br>Warn all coming Robert Brownings and Carlyles, <br>It will interest them to hunt among the Files <br>Where unvisited, a-cold,<br>Lie the crowded years of old <br>In that Kensal-Green of greatness called the Files <br>(In our newspaPère-la-Chaise the Office Files),<br>Where the dead men lay them down<br>Meekly sure of long renown,<br>And above them, sere and swift,<br>Packs the daily deepening drift<br>Of the all-recording, all-effacing Files<br>The obliterating, automatic Files.<br>Count the mighty men who slung<br>Ink, Evangel, Sword, or Tongue<br>When Reform and you were young<br>Made their boasts and spake according in the Files<br>(Hear the ghosts that wake applauding in the Files!)<br>Trace each all-forgot career<br>From long primer through brevier<br>Unto Death, a para minion in the Files<br>(Para minion-solid-bottom of the Files). . . . <br>Some successful Kings and Queens adorn the Files.<br>They were great, their views were leaded,<br>And their deaths were triple-headed,<br>So they catch the eye in running through the Files<br>(Show as blazes in the mazes of the Files);<br>For their 'paramours and priests,'<br>And their gross, jack-booted feasts,<br>And their 'epoch-marking actions' see the Files. <br>Was it Bomba fled the blue Sicilian isles?<br>Was it Saffi, a professor<br>Once of Oxford, brought redress or<br>Garibaldi? Who remembers<br>Forty-odd-year-old Septembers? - <br>Only sextons paid to dig among the Files (Such as I am, born and bred among the Files).<br>You must hack through much deposit<br>Ere you know for sure who was it<br>Came to burial with such honour in the Files (Only seven seasons back beneath the Files).<br>'Very great our loss and grievous - 'So our best and brightest leave us,<br>'And it ends the Age of Giants,' say the Files;<br>All the '60-'70-'80'-'90 Files<br>(The open-minded, opportunist Files ? <br>The easy ' 0 King, live for ever ' Files).<br>It is good to read a little in the Files;<br>'Tis a sure and sovereign balm<br>Unto philosophic calm,<br>Yea, and philosophic doubt when Life beguiles<br>When you know Success is Greatness,<br>When you marvel at your lateness<br>In apprehending facts so plain to Smiles<br>(Self-helpful, wholly strenuous Samuel Smiles).<br>When your Imp of Blind Desire<br>Bids you set the Thames afire,<br>You'll remember men have done so - in the Files.<br>You'll have seen those flames transpire - in the Files<br>(More than once that flood has run so - in the Files).<br>When the Conchimarian horns<br>Of the reboantic Norns<br>Usher gentlemen and ladies<br>With new lights on Heaven and Hades,<br>Guaranteeing to Eternity<br>All yesterday's modernity;<br>When Brocken-spectres made by<br>Some one's breath on ink parade by,<br>Very earnest and tremendous,<br>Let not shows of shows offend us.<br>When of everything we like we<br>Shout ecstatic: ' Quod ubique, <br>'Quod ab omnibus means semper!<br>Oh, my brother, keep your temper!<br>Light your pipe and take a look along the Files.<br>You've a better chance to guess<br>At the meaning of Success<br>(Which is Greatness - vide Press)<br>When you've seen it in perspective in the Files !</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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The Files -
Office Files !
Oblige me by referring to the Files.
Every question man can raise,
Every phrase of every phrase
Of that question is on record in the Files - 
(Threshed out threadbare - fought and finished in the Files 
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