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PROEM	A
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Tho' soldiers are the true supports	B
The natural allies of Courts	B
Woe to the Monarch who depends	C
Too much on his red coated friends	C
For even soldiers sometimes think	D
Nay Colonels have been known to reason	E
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And reasoners whether clad in pink	D
Or red or blue are on the brink	D
Nine cases out of ten of treason	E
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Not many soldiers I believe are	F
As fond of liberty as Mina	G
Else woe to Kings when Freedom's fever	H
Once turns into a Scarletina	G
For then but hold 'tis best to veil	I
My meaning in the following tale	I
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FABLE	J
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A Lord of Persia rich and great	K
Just come into a large estate	K
Was shockt to find he had for neighbors	L
Close to his gate some rascal Ghebers	L
Whose fires beneath his very nose	L
In heretic combustion rose	L
But Lords of Persia can no doubt	M
Do what they will so one fine morning	N
He turned the rascal Ghebers out	M
First giving a few kicks for warning	N
Then thanking Heaven most piously	O
He knockt their Temple to the ground	P
Blessing himself for joy to see	O
Such Pagan ruins strewed around	P
But much it vext my Lord to find	Q
That while all else obeyed his will	R
The Fire these Ghebers left behind	Q
Do what he would kept burning still	R
Fiercely he stormed as if his frown	G
Could scare the bright insurgent down	G
But no such fires are headstrong things	L
And care not much for Lords or Kings	L
Scarce could his Lordship well contrive	S
The flashes in one place to smother	H
Before hey presto all alive	S
They sprung up freshly in another	H
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At length when spite of prayers and damns	L
'Twas found the sturdy flame defied him	A
His stewards came with low salams	L
Offering by contract to provide him	A
Some large Extinguishers a plan	G
Much used they said at Ispahan	G
Vienna Petersburg in short	T
Wherever Light's forbid at court	T
Machines no Lord should be without	M
Which would at once put promptly out	M
All kinds of fires from staring stark	U
Volcanoes to the tiniest spark	U
Till all things slept as dull and dark	U
As in a great Lord's neighborhood	V
'Twas right and fitting all things should	V
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Accordingly some large supplies	L
Of these Extinguishers were furnisht	V
All of the true Imperial size	L
And there in rows stood black and burnisht	V
Ready where'er a gleam but shone	G
Of light or fire to be clapt on	G
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But ah how lordly wisdom errs	L
In trusting to extinguishers	L
One day when he had left all sure	W
At least so thought he dark secure	W
The flame at all its exits entries	L
Obstructed to his heart's content	V
And black extinguishers like sentries	L
Placed over every dangerous vent	V
Ye Gods imagine his amaze	L
His wrath his rage when on returning	N
He found not only the old blaze	L
Brisk as before crackling and burning	N
Not only new young conflagrations	L
Popping up round in various stations	L
But still more awful strange and dire	X
The Extinguishers themselves on fire	H
They they those trusty blind machines	L
His Lordship had so long been praising	N
As under Providence the means	L
Of keeping down all lawless blazing	N
Were now themselves alas too true	Y
The shameful fact turned blazers too	Y
And by a change as odd as cruel	J
Instead of dampers served for fuel	J
Thus of his only hope bereft	V
What said the great man must be done	G
All that in scrapes like this is left	V
To great men is to cut and run	G
So run he did while to their grounds	L
The banisht Ghebers blest returned	V
And tho' their Fire had broke its bounds	L
And all abroad now wildly burned	V
Yet well could they who loved the flame	A
Its wandering its excess reclaim	A
And soon another fairer Dome	A
Arose to be its sacred home	A
Where cherisht guarded not confined	V
The living glory dwelt inshrined	V
And shedding lustre strong but even	G
Tho' born of earth grew worthy heaven	G
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MORAL	J
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The moral hence my Muse infers	L
Is that such Lords are simple elves	L
In trusting to Extinguishers	L
That are combustible themselves	L

Thomas Moore

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