<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519575" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sestina Otiosa</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our great work, the Otia Merseiana, <br> Edited by learned Mister Sampson, <br> And supported by Professor Woodward, <br> Is financed by numerous Bogus Meetings<br> Hastily convened by Kuno Meyer <br> To impose upon the Man of Business. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> All in vain! The accomplished Man of Business <br> Disapproves of Otia Merseiana, <br> Turns his back on Doctor Kuno Meyer; <br> Cannot be enticed by Mister Sampson, <br> To be present at the Bogus Meetings, <br> Though attended by Professor Woodward. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Little cares the staid Professor Woodward: <br> He, being something of a man of business, <br> Knows that not a hundred Bogus Meetings <br> To discuss the Otia Merseiana <br> Can involve himself and Mister Sampson <br> In the debts of Doctor Kuno Meyer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> So the poor deluded Kuno Meyer, <br> Unenlightened by Professor Woodward -- <br> Whom, upon the word of Mister Sampson, <br> He believes to be a man of business <br> Fit to run the Otia Merseiana -- <br> Keeps on calling endless Bogus Meetings. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Every week has now its Bogus Meetings, <br> Punctually convened by Kuno Meyer <br> In the name of Otia Merseiana: <br> Every other week Professor Woodward <br> Takes his place, and, as a man of business, <br> Audits the accounts with Mister Sampson. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> He and impecunious Mister Sampson <br> Are the mainstay of the Bogus Meetings; <br> But the alienated Man of Business <br> Cannot be allured by Kuno Meyer <br> To attend and meet Professor Woodward, <br> Glory of the Otia Merseiana. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Kuno Meyer! Great Professor Woodward! <br> Bogus Meetings damn, for men of business, <br> Mister Sampson's Otia Merseiana.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Walter+Raleigh">Sir Walter Raleigh</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=519575" data-title="Sestina Otiosa de Sir Walter Raleigh" data-description="Our great work, the Otia Merseiana, Edited by learned Mister Sampson, And supported by Professor Woodward, Is financed by numerous Bogus Meetings Hastily convened by Kuno Meyer To impose upon the Man of Business. All in vain! The accom..."></div> </div> </div>

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