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Brothers have you observed the calm	A
Even the leaves of that symbolic palm	A
That denotes peace political and otherwise are scarcely stirred	B
By the faintest breath of controversy Not a word	B
Is heard	B
Excepting here and there the belated spouting	C
Of some overcharged politician giving his vocabulary an outing	C
Brothers what does this denote	D
Is there no longer any competition for your precious vote	D
Nay have you ever heard that alleged political axiom over which the	E
wily old campaigners oft make goodly sport	F
'The memory of the sap headed elector is short '	G
Do you believe the allegation brothers or do you doubt it	H
And anyhow what are you going to do about it	H
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Brothers if ever you hope to know enough to come in out of the wet	I
Mark this They are giving you time to forget	I
What of those great National Questions	J
Those fine broad far seeing and statesman like suggestions	J
Those urgent matters of life and death	K
About which the politicians were so busy talking a while ago that they	L
had hardly time to draw breath	K
Are they dead	M
Have they been fatally bashed on the head	M
Have they been decently interred attended by those solemn obsequies	J
usually afforded the remains of respectable and right thinking	C
persons who impressed us in this life with their top hats	J
Rats	J
What of the settlement of the Northern Territory	N
Is this an abandoned story	N
What of our sea defence	J
Has this question been cast hence	J
Into the outer darkness and the gloom	O
Of the tomb	O
What of efficient Protection	P
Is this now merely a matter for maundering retrospection	P
Amongst senile and toothless old parties whose minds ever dwell amongst	Q
the dead and mouldy things of the past	R
Oh Blast brothers BLAST	R
Blast those rocks of apathy that bind your sense of true citizenship	S
Get a fresh grip	S
Spring off your tall	T
Give your political perspicaciousness a ball	T
Revive it with a long cool refreshing drink	U
And sit down and THINK	U
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Do you imagine for one moment that old 'Party Government' is asleep	V
Do you picture it sunk in slumbers deep	V
If you do brothers you never made a bigger mistake	W
It is very very wide awake	W
That fine old British institution Party Government that was	J
introduced into this suffering country before the thistle and	X
previous to the rabbit	Y
And nursed so assiduously by politicians till our acceptance of it has	J
become a sinful habit	Y
This pestiferous System my brothers never sleeps	J
Watch and ward it keeps	J
And while you are mooning sporting smoodging drinking dreaming	C
It is engineering planning plotting scheming	C
The Hon Mr Black is aiming at the political downfall of the Hon Mr	Z
White	A2
While the Hon Mr White is playing for the shoving of the Hon Mr	Z
Black and his friends into the darkness and gloom and solitude of	B2
political night	A2
But both my brothers both are toiling with the energy of a h p	N
triple cylinder motor	Z
With the object of eventually and effectively sprinkling a little salt	C2
upon the tail of that dull but desirable bird the free and independent	D2
voter	Z
Brothers do ye feel like taking tickets on yourselves Do ye feel	E2
flattered and exalted	F2
For behold ye are to be numbered among the salted	G2
And while these plots and plans are brewing	C
What my brothers are ye doing	C
Whilst the wily politician is chewing	C
The cud of sinful reflection with his eye upon your votes	J
Are uou acting otherwise than after the manner and fashion of unreflective	B2
goats	J
While you brother are canoodling with a soft and fluffy person in a	E
Magyarblouse upon the silvery beach	H2
Striving to convince her that you think she is a perfect peach	H2
And while you brother are vainly endeavoring at the races	J
To watch the impossible nags you back run into places	J
And while you brother are sinking the long 'un and the gin squash and	X
the soder with dash	I2
And recklessly doing in your cash	I2
Sly old Party Government and its minions	J
Are busy manufacturing your political opinions	J
Yes you the intelligent electors fine fellows of quite unusual	J2
brain and brawn	P
Are each of you regarded merely as a puppet a pawn	P
In the Game	K2
Shame	K2
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Attention and I shall tell you exactly what old Party Government is doing	C
at this precise moment if you wish	L2
He is busily engaged in the manufacture of fish	L2
Fish brothers herrings red herrings which it is his intention to draw	M2
across the track	N2
Of great National Issues because he is too tired to deal with them and	X
work gives him a pain in the back	N2
And in full cry like a foolish and deluded pack	N2
Of unintelligent beagles you will chase wildly after the remains of that	O2
unpleasant defunct and odorous fish	L2
And you will think you are doing it because it is your own free wish	L2
You will open your mouths and howl and go and record your votes at the	E
polls	J
And fondly imagine that you are expressing the earnest convictions of your	P2
inmost and invincible souls	J
I fear me my brothers that the tart and the prad and the long beer and	X
the midnight cray that bringeth early indigestion	P
Have far more attraction for you than any great National Question	P
Go to	Q2
There is no fun and small profit in attempting to act Diogenes to such as	J
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Brothers I bid ye a sad farewell	R2
So many poor misguided people who grabbed their opinions ready made at the	E
last moment have gone before us that there is nowadays some difficulty	N
in keeping the lid on Hell	R2
Brothers with that innate dignity that is characteristic I retire	S2
To contemplate further insults which I shall deliver as occasion may	L
require	Z

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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