cdcdawg
Since Jul 26, 2006
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The men of my own stock,
They may do ill or well,
But they tell the lies I am wanted to,
They are used to the lies I tell;
And we do not need interpreters
When we go to buy or sell.
The Stranger within my gates,
He may be evil or good,
But I cannot tell what powers control
What reasons sway his mood;
Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.
The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes
They think of the likes of me.
This was my fathers belief
And this is also mine:
Let the corn be all one sheaf
And the grapes be all one vine,
Ere our childrens teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.
Rudyard Kipling