<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538687" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Credo</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the sole edification<br>Of this decent congregation,<br>Goodly people, by your grant<br>I will sing a holy chant—<br>I will sing a holy chant.<br>If the ditty sound but oddly,<br>'Twas a father, wise and godly,<br>Sang it so long ago—<br>Then sing as Martin Luther sang,<br>As Doctor Martin Luther sang:<br>'Who loves not wine, woman and song,<br>He is a fool his whole life long!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He, by custom patriarchal,<br>Loved to see the beaker sparkle;<br>And he thought the wine improved,<br>Tasted by the lips he loved—<br>By the kindly lips he loved.<br>Friends, I wish this custom pious<br>Duly were observed by us,<br>To combine love, song, wine,<br>And sing as Martin Luther sang,<br>As Doctor Martin Luther sang:<br>'Who loves not wine, woman and song,<br>He is a fool his whole life long!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who refuses this our Credo,<br>And who will not sing as we do,<br>Were he holy as John Knox,<br>I'd pronounce him heterodox!<br>I'd pronounce him heterodox,<br>And from out this congregation,<br>With a solemn commination,<br>Banish quick the heretic,<br>Who will not sing as Luther sang,<br>As Doctor Martin Luther sang:<br>'Who loves not wine, woman and song,<br>He is a fool his whole life long!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Makepeace+Thackeray">William Makepeace Thackeray</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=538687" data-title="A Credo de William Makepeace Thackeray" data-description="I. For the sole edification Of this decent congregation, Goodly people, by your grant I will sing a holy chant— I will sing a holy chant. If the ditty sound but oddly, 'Twas a father, wise and godly, Sang it so long ago— Then sing as Martin L..."></div> </div> </div>

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