<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537255" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Stone Cross</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A STATESMAN is an easy man,<br>He tells his lies by rote;<br>A journalist makes up his lies<br>And takes you by the throat;<br>So stay at home' and drink your beer<br>And let the neighbours' vote,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said the man in the golden breastplate<br>Under the old stone Cross.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because this age and the next age<br>Engender in the ditch,<br>No man can know a happy man<br>From any passing wretch;<br>If Folly link with Elegance<br>No man knows which is which,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said the man in the golden breastplate<br>Under the old stone Cross.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But actors lacking music<br>Do most excite my spleen,<br>They say it is more human<br>To shuffle, grunt and groan,<br>Not knowing what unearthly stuff<br>Rounds a mighty scene,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said the man in the golden breastplate<br>Under the old stone Cross.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Butler+Yeats">William Butler Yeats</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=537255" data-title="The Old Stone Cross de William Butler Yeats" data-description="A STATESMAN is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home' and drink your beer And let the neighbours' vote, Said the man in the golden breastplate Under the old stone Cross..."></div> </div> </div>

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