<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511107" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Servant When He Reigneth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear. For a servant when he reigneth, and a fool when he is filled with meat; for an odious woman when she is married, and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress. -- Prov. XXX. 21-22-23.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Three things make earth unquiet<br>And four she cannot brook<br>The godly Agur counted them<br>And put them in a book --<br>Those Four Tremendous Curses<br>With which mankind is cursed;<br>But a Servant when He Reigneth<br>Old Agur entered first.<br>An Handmaid that is Mistress<br>We need not call upon.<br>A Fool when he is full of Meat<br>Will fall asleep anon.<br>An Odious Woman Married<br>May bear a babe and mend;<br>But a Servant when He Reigneth<br>Is Confusion to the end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His feet are swift to tumult,<br>His hands are slow to toil,<br>His ears are deaf to reason,<br>His lips are loud in broil.<br>He knows no use for power<br>Except to show his might.<br>He gives no heed to judgment<br>Unless it prove him right.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because he served a master<br>Before his Kingship came,<br>And hid in all disaster<br>Behind his master's name,<br>So, when his Folly opens<br>The unnecessary hells,<br>A Servant when He Reigneth<br>Throws the blame on some one else.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His vows are lightly spoken,<br>His faith is hard to bind,<br>His trust is easy boken,<br>He fears his fellow-kind.<br>The nearest mob will move him<br>To break the pledge he gave --<br>Oh, a Servant when he Reigneth<br>Is more than ever slave!</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=511107" data-title="The Servant When He Reigneth de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear. For a servant when he reigneth, and a fool when he is filled with meat; for an odious woman when she is married, and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress. -- Prov. XX..."></div> </div> </div>

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