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Слушать(AI)Epitah on the Politician Himself
Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
Another on the
This, the last ornament among the peers,
Bribed, bullied, swindled and blackmailed for years:
But Death's what even Politicians fail To bribe or swindle, bully or blackmail.
On Another
The Politician, dead and turned to clay,
Will make a clout to keep the wind away.
I am not fond of draughts, and yet I doubt If I could get myself to touch that clout.
On Yet
Fame to her darling Shifter glory gives;
And Shifter is immortal while he lives.
Epitah Upon
Lauda tu Ilarion audacem et splendidum,
Who was always beginning things and never ended 'em.
Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870[1] – 16 July 1953) was a British-French writer and historian and one of the most prolific writer
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