<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511004" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Juggler's Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the drums begin to beat<br>Down the street,<br>When the poles are fetched and guyed,<br>When the tight-rope's stretched and tied,<br>When the dance-girls make salaam,<br>When the snake-bag wakes alarm,<br>When the pipes set up their drone,<br>When the sharp-edged knives are thrown<br>When the red-hot coals are shown,<br>To be swallowed by-and-by--<br>Arre, Brethren, here come I!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stripped to loin-cloth in the sun,<br>Search me well and watch me close!<br>Tell me how my tricks are done--<br>Tell me how the mango grows!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Give a man who is not made<br>To his trade<br>Swords to fling and catch again,<br>Coins to ring and snatch again,<br>Men to harm and cure again,<br>Snakes to charm and lure again--<br>He'll be hurt by his own blade,<br>By his serpents disobeyed,<br>By his clumsiness bewrayed,<br>By the people laughed to scorn--<br>So 'tis not with juggler born!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pinch of dust or withered flower,<br>Chance-flung nut or borrowed staff,<br>Serve his need and shore his power,<br>Bind the spell or loose the laugh!</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> <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=511004" data-title="The Juggler's Song de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="When the drums begin to beat Down the street, When the poles are fetched and guyed, When the tight-rope's stretched and tied, When the dance-girls make salaam, When the snake-bag wakes alarm, When the pipes set up their drone, When the sharp-edged..."></div> </div> </div>

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