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- THE OLD STONE CROSS
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- A STATESMAN is an easy man,
- He tells his lies by rote;
- A journalist makes up his lies
- And takes you by the throat;
- So stay at home' and drink your beer
- And let the neighbours' vote,
- Said the man in the golden breastplate
- Under the old stone Cross.
- Because this age and the next age
- Engender in the ditch,
- No man can know a happy man
- From any passing wretch;
- If Folly link with Elegance
- No man knows which is which,
- <1Said the man in the golden breastplate
- Under the old stone Cross.>1
- But actors lacking music
- Do most excite my spleen,
- They say it is more human
- To shuffle, grunt and groan,
- Not knowing what unearthly stuff
- Rounds a mighty scene,
- <1Said the man in the golden breastplate
- Under the old stone Cross.>1
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