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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539060" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Working Monarch</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rising early in the morning,<br>We proceed to light the fire,<br>Then our Majesty adorning<br>In its work-a-day attire,<br>We embark without delay<br>On the duties of the day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First, we polish off some batches<br>Of political despatches,<br>And foreign politicians circumvent;<br>Then, if business isn't heavy,<br>We may hold a Royal LEVEE,<br>Or ratify some Acts of Parliament:<br>Then we probably review the household troops -<br>With the usual &quot;Shalloo humps&quot; and &quot;Shalloo hoops!&quot;<br>Or receive with ceremonial and state<br>An interesting Eastern Potentate.<br>After that we generally<br>Go and dress our private VALET -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(It's a rather nervous duty - he a touchy little man) -<br>Write some letters literary<br>For our private secretary -<br>(He is shaky in his spelling, so we help him if we can.)<br>Then, in view of cravings inner,<br>We go down and order dinner;<br>Or we polish the Regalia and the Coronation Plate -<br>Spend an hour in titivating<br>All our Gentlemen-in-Waiting;<br>Or we run on little errands for the Ministers of State.<br>Oh, philosophers may sing<br>Of the troubles of a King,<br>Yet the duties are delightful, and the privileges great;<br>But the privilege and pleasure<br>That we treasure beyond measure<br>Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After luncheon (making merry<br>On a bun and glass of sherry),<br>If we've nothing in particular to do,<br>We may make a Proclamation,<br>Or receive a Deputation -<br>Then we possibly create a Peer or two.<br>Then we help a fellow-creature on his path<br>With the Garter or the Thistle or the Bath:<br>Or we dress and toddle off in semi-State<br>To a festival, a function, or a FETE.<br>Then we go and stand as sentry<br>At the Palace (private entry),<br>Marching hither, marching thither, up and down and to and fro,<br>While the warrior on duty<br>Goes in search of beer and beauty<br>(And it generally happens that he hasn't far to go).<br>He relieves us, if he's able,<br>Just in time to lay the table.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then we dine and serve the coffee; and at half-past twelve or one,<br>With a pleasure that's emphatic;<br>Then we seek our little attic<br>With the gratifying feeling that our duty has been done.<br>Oh, philosophers may sing<br>Of the troubles of a King,<br>But of pleasures there are many and of troubles there are none;<br>And the culminating pleasure<br>That we treasure beyond measure<br>Is the gratifying feeling that our duty has been done!</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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We proceed to light the fire,
Then our Majesty adorning
In its work-a-day attire,
We embark without delay
On the duties of the day.

First, we polish off some batches
Of political despatches,
And foreign politicians ci..."></div>
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