<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539790" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines To Our New Censor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Mr. Oscar Wilde, having discovered that England is unworthy of him, has announced his resolve to become a naturalised Frenchman.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And wilt thou, Oscar, from us flee,<br>And must we, henceforth, wholly sever?<br>Shall thy laborious _jeux-d'esprit_<br>Sadden our lives no more for ever?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all thy future wilt thou link<br>With that brave land to which thou goest?<br>Unhappy France! we _used_ to think<br>She touched, at Sedan, fortune's lowest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you're made French as easily<br>As you might change the clothes you're wearing?<br>Fancy!--and 'tis so hard to be<br>A man of sense and modest bearing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">May fortitude beneath this blow<br>Fail not the gallant Gallic nation!<br>By past experience, well we know<br>Her genius for recuperation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as for us--to our disgrace,<br>Your stricture's truth must be conceded:<br>Would any but a stupid race<br>Have made the fuss about you _we_ did?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Watson">William Watson</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=539790" data-title="Lines To Our New Censor de William Watson" data-description="[Mr. Oscar Wilde, having discovered that England is unworthy of him, has announced his resolve to become a naturalised Frenchman.] And wilt thou, Oscar, from us flee, And must we, henceforth, wholly sever? Shall thy laborious _jeux-d'esprit_ Sad..."></div> </div> </div>

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