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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=523678" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Plaidoirie For A Prince Of Jaffna?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blue blood gushes when heroes die<br> From gory wounds on battlefields<br>Not in castle intrigues when for a lie<br> Crowns use commoners as shields.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A royal house does not construct itself<br> After centuries have broken tradition<br>Or on formal rules on how to name itself<br> Nor on who should follow in succession.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A true prince re-possesses the land first<br> Takes for his witnesses native-born citizens<br>Bids them follow his will out of dire thirst<br> Not as the self-crowned leader of denizens.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be born a Kshastriya is not a privilege, <br> The birthright is even an act of sacrilege<br>If he who dons the crown scorns the people; <br> A spurned poem in the culled florilege.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the blown sliver of land at Great Bharat's feet<br> No one knows what Tamil line came to greet<br>Found refuge and took throne to announce a reign<br> Nor helas to make much of a glorious feat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kings are not born to hoist the castial banner, <br> Rather had they earlier scaled the social ladder<br>Through heroic deeds by protecting the masses; <br> Chieftains peer-elected to top the social order.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Prince may not bring dishonour to his kingdom<br> In times of strive for the sake of Christendom; <br>If he seeks spurious honours to feather his nest<br> And alienates a people who die for freedom.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A King is he who in high danger opts for sacrifice<br> Like Kattabomman seeking no excuse nor artifice<br>Met the East India Company's Collector all alone<br> And fought his valiant way through gunfire malice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The history of Tamil kingdoms in all ages gone by<br> Teaches us the same lesson made proverbial by<br>An Ettappan who in his insatiable envy of grandeur<br> Caused the ultimate Tamil Prince to hang high.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We live in a world where politicians are the real Princes<br> Who wear no crowns but their ministerial pince-nez; <br>Yet other captains struggle against such fait accompli<br> And in jungles forge a human bulwark of chances.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's not the cherry on the icing that makes a cake<br> If underneath the slender icing over a lake<br>Wild worms bore at the crust raised in protection, <br> Won't people then take a Kshastriya for a fake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you want to be king then let your voice be true<br> Renounce all wish to be ordained a true blue; <br>Let the people choose what they want for a crown<br> If they need you, will they not call upon you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Uneasy the head which wears the realm's crown<br> While the people fret and fume and frown; <br>See how caretaker John usurps the Lion-Heart's throne: <br> Uneasier the head become the butt of a clown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lay aside all thought of fame<br> In the quest for a feudal name; <br>He who assumes an ancient title<br> Must prove worthy of the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=T.+Wignesan">T. Wignesan</a><div class=q>
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 From gory wounds on battlefields
Not in castle intrigues when for a lie
 Crowns use commoners as shields.

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 After centuries have broken tradition
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