<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538999" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Contemplative Sentry</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When all night long a chap remains<br>On sentry-go, to chase monotony<br>He exercises of his brains,<br>That is, assuming that he's got any.<br>Though never nurtured in the lap<br>Of luxury, yet I admonish you,<br>I am an intellectual chap,<br>And think of things that would astonish you.<br>I often think it's comical<br>How Nature always does contrive<br>That every boy and every gal,<br>That's born into the world alive,<br>Is either a little Liberal,<br>Or else a little Conservative!<br>Fal lal la!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When in that house M.P.'s divide,<br>If they've a brain and cerebellum, too,<br>They've got to leave that brain outside,<br>And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.<br>But then the prospect of a lot<br>Of statesmen, all in close proximity,<br>A-thinking for themselves, is what<br>No man can face with equanimity.<br>Then let's rejoice with loud Fal lal<br>That Nature wisely does contrive<br>That every boy and every gal,<br>That's born into the world alive,<br>Is either a little Liberal,<br>Or else a little Conservative!<br>Fal lal la!</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> <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=538999" data-title="The Contemplative Sentry de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="When all night long a chap remains On sentry-go, to chase monotony He exercises of his brains, That is, assuming that he's got any. Though never nurtured in the lap Of luxury, yet I admonish you, I am an intellectual chap, And think of things that..."></div> </div> </div>

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