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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539043" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Reward of Merit</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">DR. BELVILLE was regarded as the CRICHTON of his age:<br>His tragedies were reckoned much too thoughtful for the stage;<br>His poems held a noble rank, although it's very true<br>That, being very proper, they were read by very few.<br>He was a famous Painter, too, and shone upon the &quot;line,&quot;<br>And even MR. RUSKIN came and worshipped at his shrine;<br>But, alas, the school he followed was heroically high -<br>The kind of Art men rave about, but very seldom buy;<br>And everybody said<br>&quot;How can he be repaid -<br>This very great - this very good - this very gifted man?&quot;<br>But nobody could hit upon a practicable plan!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was a great Inventor, and discovered, all alone,<br>A plan for making everybody's fortune but his own;<br>For, in business, an Inventor's little better than a fool,<br>And my highly-gifted friend was no exception to the rule.<br>His poems - people read them in the Quarterly Reviews -<br>His pictures - they engraved them in the ILLUSTRATED NEWS -<br>His inventions - they, perhaps, might have enriched him by degrees,<br>But all his little income went in Patent Office fees;<br>And everybody said<br>&quot;How can he be repaid -<br>This very great - this very good - this very gifted man?&quot;<br>But nobody could hit upon a practicable plan!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At last the point was given up in absolute despair,<br>When a distant cousin died, and he became a millionaire,<br>With a county seat in Parliament, a moor or two of grouse,<br>And a taste for making inconvenient speeches in the House!<br>THEN it flashed upon Britannia that the fittest of rewards<br>Was, to take him from the Commons and to put him in the Lords!<br>And who so fit to sit in it, deny it if you can,<br>As this very great - this very good - this very gifted man?<br>(Though I'm more than half afraid<br>That it sometimes may be said<br>That we never should have revelled in that source of proper pride,<br>However great his merits - if his cousin hadn't died!)</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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His tragedies were reckoned much too thoughtful for the stage;
His poems held a noble rank, although it's very true
That, being very proper, they were read by very few.
He was a famous Painter,..."></div>
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