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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538983" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sir Macklin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all the youths I ever saw<br>None were so wicked, vain, or silly,<br>So lost to shame and Sabbath law,<br>As worldly TOM, and BOB, and BILLY.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For every Sabbath day they walked<br>(Such was their gay and thoughtless nature)<br>In parks or gardens, where they talked<br>From three to six, or even later.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SIR MACKLIN was a priest severe<br>In conduct and in conversation,<br>It did a sinner good to hear<br>Him deal in ratiocination.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He could in every action show<br>Some sin, and nobody could doubt him.<br>He argued high, he argued low,<br>He also argued round about him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wept to think each thoughtless youth<br>Contained of wickedness a skinful,<br>And burnt to teach the awful truth,<br>That walking out on Sunday's sinful.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Oh, youths,&quot; said he, &quot;I grieve to find<br>The course of life you've been and hit on -<br>Sit down,&quot; said he, &quot;and never mind<br>The pennies for the chairs you sit on.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;My opening head is 'Kensington,'<br>How walking there the sinner hardens,<br>Which when I have enlarged upon,<br>I go to 'Secondly' - its 'Gardens.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;My 'Thirdly' comprehendeth 'Hyde,'<br>Of Secresy the guilts and shameses;<br>My 'Fourthly' - 'Park' - its verdure wide -<br>My 'Fifthly' comprehends 'St. James's.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;That matter settled, I shall reach<br>The 'Sixthly' in my solemn tether,<br>And show that what is true of each,<br>Is also true of all, together.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Then I shall demonstrate to you,<br>According to the rules of WHATELY,<br>That what is true of all, is true<br>Of each, considered separately.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In lavish stream his accents flow,<br>TOM, BOB, and BILLY dare not flout him;<br>He argued high, he argued low,<br>He also argued round about him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Ha, ha!&quot; he said, &quot;you loathe your ways,<br>You writhe at these my words of warning,<br>In agony your hands you raise.&quot;<br>(And so they did, for they were yawning.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To &quot;Twenty-firstly&quot; on they go,<br>The lads do not attempt to scout him;<br>He argued high, he argued low,<br>He also argued round about him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Ho, ho!&quot; he cries, &quot;you bow your crests -<br>My eloquence has set you weeping;<br>In shame you bend upon your breasts!&quot;<br>(And so they did, for they were sleeping.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He proved them this - he proved them that -<br>This good but wearisome ascetic;<br>He jumped and thumped upon his hat,<br>He was so very energetic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His Bishop at this moment chanced<br>To pass, and found the road encumbered;<br>He noticed how the Churchman danced,<br>And how his congregation slumbered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hundred and eleventh head<br>The priest completed of his stricture;<br>&quot;Oh, bosh!&quot; the worthy Bishop said,<br>And walked him off as in the picture.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</a><div class=q>
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None were so wicked, vain, or silly,
So lost to shame and Sabbath law,
As worldly TOM, and BOB, and BILLY.

For every Sabbath day they walked
(Such was their gay and thoughtless nature)
In parks or gardens, where they ..."></div>
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