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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538987" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tempora Mutantur</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Letters, letters, letters, letters!<br>Some that please and some that bore,<br>Some that threaten prison fetters<br>(Metaphorically, fetters<br>Such as bind insolvent debtors) -<br>Invitations by the score.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One from COGSON, WILES, and RAILER,<br>My attorneys, off the Strand;<br>One from COPPERBLOCK, my tailor -<br>My unreasonable tailor -<br>One in FLAGG'S disgusting hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One from EPHRAIM and MOSES,<br>Wanting coin without a doubt,<br>I should like to pull their noses -<br>Their uncompromising noses;<br>One from ALICE with the roses -<br>Ah, I know what that's about!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time was when I waited, waited<br>For the missives that she wrote,<br>Humble postmen execrated -<br>Loudly, deeply execrated -<br>When I heard I wasn't fated<br>To be gladdened with a note!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time was when I'd not have bartered<br>Of her little pen a dip<br>For a peerage duly gartered -<br>For a peerage starred and gartered -<br>With a palace-office chartered,<br>Or a Secretaryship.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the time for that is over,<br>And I wish we'd never met.<br>I'm afraid I've proved a rover -<br>I'm afraid a heartless rover -<br>Quarters in a place like Dover<br>Tend to make a man forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bills for carriages and horses,<br>Bills for wine and light cigar,<br>Matters that concern the Forces -<br>News that may affect the Forces -<br>News affecting my resources,<br>Much more interesting are!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the tiny little paper,<br>With the words that seem to run<br>From her little fingers taper<br>(They are very small and taper),<br>By the tailor and the draper<br>Are in interest outdone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And unopened it's remaining!<br>I can read her gentle hope -<br>Her entreaties, uncomplaining<br>(She was always uncomplaining),<br>Her devotion never waning -<br>Through the little envelope!</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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Some that please and some that bore,
Some that threaten prison fetters
(Metaphorically, fetters
Such as bind insolvent debtors) -
Invitations by the score.

One from COGSON, WILES, and RAILER,
My attorneys, off ..."></div>
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