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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538310" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ex Official's Lament</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas alas! my power is gone;<br>I thought 'twould last for ever;<br>But now 'tis over, I must own,<br>They've done it very clever.<br>I could have feather'd well my nest,<br>If I had been permitted;<br>To that intent I did my best,<br>To have my friend acquitted.<br>'Congratulatory address'<br>I also did procure him.<br>Among my influential class<br>And thought this must secure him.<br>In fact, I left no means untried,<br>To smother up the matter,<br>And on my influence relied,<br>To stop the diggers' chatter.<br>But rumours soon got spread about,<br>Of this our camp proceeding;<br>And very soon we all found out,<br>That discontent was breeding.<br>At last, the diggers on the place,<br>Determined to assemble:-<br>Which, when I saw I must confess;<br>I inwardly did tremble.<br>And yet to awe the vulgar crowd,<br>I got the troopers round me;<br>When groans and hisses long and loud,<br>Completely did confound me.<br>My brethren then with all their might,<br>Endeavoured to allay them:-<br>When lo! it rose to such a height;<br>No speech of ours could stay them.<br>I, always thought the common herd<br>Should render blind submission:-<br>Should ne'er have once presumed or dared<br>To question our decision.<br>But, now they talk about their 'rights',<br>As much as their superiors:-<br>Though 'Gentlemen' I'm certain quite,<br>All view them as inferiors.<br>Could we but get them down once more,<br>We'd hold them in such fetters,<br>As would restrain them evermore,<br>From meddling with their betters.<br>But, now, alas! I see no way,<br>To gratify my wishes:-<br>With all our schemes we've lost the day,<br>For getting loaves and fishes.<br>Intelligence is gaining ground,<br>We can hold out no longer:-<br>Where'er I cast my eyes around,<br>The 'league' is getting stronger.<br>Left to our fate, we can but grieve,<br>To see their ranks increasing:<br>Oh! could we have have a short reprieve,<br>The diggers to be fleecing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Gay">William Gay</a><div class=q>
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I thought 'twould last for ever;
But now 'tis over, I must own,
They've done it very clever.
I could have feather'd well my nest,
If I had been permitted;
To that intent I did my best,
To have my friend acquitted.
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