<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539039" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Policeman's Lot</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a felon's not engaged in his employment,<br>Or maturing his felonious little plans,<br>His capacity for innocent enjoyment<br>Is just as great as any honest man's.<br>Our feelings we with difficulty smother<br>When constabulary duty's to be done:<br>Ah, take one consideration with another,<br>A policeman's lot is not a happy one!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling,<br>When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime,<br>He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling,<br>And listen to the merry village chime.<br>When the coster's finished jumping on his mother,<br>He loves to lie a-basking in the sun:<br>Ah, take one consideration with another,<br>The policeman's lot is not a happy one!</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=539039" data-title="The Policeman's Lot de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="When a felon's not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest man's. Our feelings we with difficulty smother When constabulary duty's to be done: Ah, take o..."></div> </div> </div>

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