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Mr Pericles M P	A
In four sixty nine B C	A
Outed Cimon at a general election	B
Premier Cimon thuswise ex ed	C
Was quite naturally vexed	D
And he made an angry speech in this connection	B
He remarked in peroration as he grabbed his coat and hat	E
'You're a Socialist you rotter You'd no precedent for that '	F
Mr Pericles is dead	C
Thoroughly I've heard it said	C
And his words and acts may now be safely quoted	G
By our statesmen eminent	H
Who on mouldy precedent	H
If it's old enough and dead enough have doted	H
For precedent I'd have you note is most peculiar stuff	I
It's absolutely useless if it isn't dead enough	I
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In my youth I ever held	H
Grave respect for all the eld	H
And I found in history a strong attraction	B
So whene'er a scheme I planned	H
Eagerly the tomes I scanned	H
That I might find precedent for ev'ry action	B
Yet despite my zealous labour and the piles of books I read	H
In the things that truly mattered I seemed not to forge ahead	H
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As I nursed my bulging brow	J
Said I 'This is wrong somehow	J
Precedent as we all know is something holy	A
Something we should not neglect	H
To regard with great respect	H
And I feel I'm safe in following it solely	A
But had we done it from the start I grasp at least this much	K
We would still be munching apples that we didn't oughter touch	K
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'Well this problem is immense '	-
In my experience	L
I reflected 'How have we progressed I wonder '	-
Then the obvious reply	M
Hit me squarely in the eye	M
It is by ignoring precedent by thunder	N
'Tis men who fix the precedents that lead the nations on	O
And not the folk who pin their faith to leaders dead and gone	P
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Mr Pericles M P	A
You're the sort of man for me	A
Though I understand you are a Dago alien	B
'Spite your moral character	N
O'er the Styx I greet you sir	N
You're the sort we need to day in things Australian	B
For we're moved to ask the question of our statesmen now and then	Q
'Does this job of fixing precedents belong to ancient men '	-
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Mr Pericles deceased	H
'Spite his deadness has increased	H
My respect for all the world's originators	R
If we must have precedents	S
My ideal he represents	T
For I'm done with copyists and imitators	R
And after this my reference is Pericles M P	A
He acted without precedent that's precedent for me	A

Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis

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