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{{dia|Queen|Good [[Regolamento]]. Your ornery battalion grows apace.<br>
{{script|Regolamento}}: Th’untended thatch of shin-tangling rulery sleepeth not.
Why so many hands aligned in defensive form,<br>
Slim principles of good behaviour — short days ago, a waxing star
When ill-conduced to aid our onward march?}}
Play out their scenes as half-recollected dreams.
{{dia|Regolamento|Th’untended thatch of shin-tangling rulery sleepeth not.<br>
O, happy reverie! Was there e’er so sweet a time?  
Slim principles of good behaviour — short days ago, a waxing star<br>
Was compliant life so fair? Who knew what glinting jewels we held!
Play out their scenes as half-recollected dreams.<br>
Jewels once, but crush’d to charcoal in our hands.
O, happy reverie! Was there e’er so sweet a time?<br>
{{script|Queen}}: Doth statutory obeisance bring you low?
Was compliant life so fair? Who knew what glinting jewels we held!<br>
{{script|Nuncle}}: Not so low he couldn’t raise an army, liege.
Jewels once, but crush’d to charcoal in our hands.}}
{{script|Regolamento}}: ’Tis true: the count of heads giv’n to policery is fat —
{{dia|Queen|Doth mere statutory obeisance bring you low?}}
But knotted perimeters o’erlap and contradict.  
{{dia|Nuncle|Not so low he couldn’t raise an army, liege.}}
Bossy strictures grind upon our chasest industries
{{dia|Regolamento|’Tis true: the count of heads giv’n to policery is fat —<br>
Our smallest act hemmed in by rainbow rules of ill-scop’d application.
But knotted perimeters o’erlap and contradict.<br>
Ours not to make reply nor reason why —
Bossy strictures grind upon our chasest industries<br>
But be silent and, sans fuss, comply.
Our smallest act hemmed in by rainbow rules of ill-scop’d application.<br>
{{script|Queen}}: What causeth this?
Ours not to make reply nor reason why —<br>
{{script|Regolamento}}: The ropish scars of distant misadventure  
Ours to but be silent and, ''sans'' fuss, comply.}}
Give the fib to saintly visage.
{{dia|Queen|What causeth this?}}
The watchers’ shrill response to past imprudence:
{{dia|Regolamento|The ropish scars of distant misadventure<br>
This misbegotten step, that ill-timed grapple  
Give the fib to saintly visage.<br>
Each wormy bite we take of rotten apple — each one marks us deep.
The watchers’ shrill response to past imprudence:<br>
If harmed or just abash’d, some fuss-pot regulators’ soon at hand
This misbegotten step, that ill-timed grapple<br>
To apportion reprimand. And soon thereafter to encode
Each wormy bite we take of [[bad apple|rotten apple]] — each one marks us deep.<br>
In cryptic ciphers fresh directives which thereafter he
If harmed or just abash’d, some fuss-pot regulators’ soon at hand<br>
{{script|Inclusivia}}: Or she.
To apportion reprimand. And soon thereafter to encode<br>
{{script|Regolamento}}: Or she — or they — abstain from explication,
In cryptic ciphers fresh directives which, thereafter, he}}
But set in stone and codify, for good or ill.
{{dia|Inclusivia|Or she.}}
We know not what it means. It might be this or that.
{{dia|Regolamento|Or she — or they — abstain from explication,<br>
{{script|Queen}}: Canst thou not get a ruling?
But fix confusing rules in stone and thereby codify.<br>
{{script|Nuncle}}: A worthy thought. A pretty feeling.
We know not whereof they mean: it might be stop, it might be go.<br>
And ask them, while you’re there, to nail your jelly to the ceiling.
No further light forthcomes about. We imagine neither do they know.}}
{{script|Regolamento}}: We take our bitter medicines  
{{dia|Queen|Canst thou not obtain a ruling?}}
Ev’n while we let this gleaming engine stack silt up
{{dia|Nuncle|A worthy thought. A pretty feeling.<br>
As like a discarded hulk, half-buried in the mud at Tilbury
And ask them, while you’re there, to nail your jelly to the ceiling.<br>
In that rich and loamy sod low stunted shrubs whose thorny limbs the squalling wind doth shriek.
Th’official who binds his fate to instruments unfathom’d<br>
We set our team with adze and axe and secateurs
E’en if his own, is a rare and special bird.}}
They hack at growling branches who mandate  
{{dia|Regolamento|We take our bitter medicines<br>
This matchèd trade, that time-stamp, some other reconcile o pedanrty.
E’en while we let this gleaming engine stack silt up<br>
But it is a labour more riskful then rewarding.
As like a discarded hulk, half-buried in the mud at Tilbury<br>
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In that rich and loamy sod low stunted shrubs<br>
Whose thorny limbs the squalling wind doth shriek.<br>
We set our team with adze and axe and secateurs<br>
They hack at growling branches who mandate<br>
This matchèd trade, that time-stamp, some other reckoning of pedantry.<br>
But it is a labour more riskful then rewarding.}}

Latest revision as of 15:18, 10 September 2024

Queen: Good Regolamento. Your ornery battalion grows apace.
Why so many hands aligned in defensive form,
When ill-conduced to aid our onward march?

Regolamento: Th’untended thatch of shin-tangling rulery sleepeth not.
Slim principles of good behaviour — short days ago, a waxing star
Play out their scenes as half-recollected dreams.
O, happy reverie! Was there e’er so sweet a time?
Was compliant life so fair? Who knew what glinting jewels we held!
Jewels once, but crush’d to charcoal in our hands.

Queen: Doth mere statutory obeisance bring you low?

Nuncle: Not so low he couldn’t raise an army, liege.

Regolamento: ’Tis true: the count of heads giv’n to policery is fat —
But knotted perimeters o’erlap and contradict.
Bossy strictures grind upon our chasest industries
Our smallest act hemmed in by rainbow rules of ill-scop’d application.
Ours not to make reply nor reason why —
Ours to but be silent and, sans fuss, comply.

Queen: What causeth this?

Regolamento: The ropish scars of distant misadventure
Give the fib to saintly visage.
The watchers’ shrill response to past imprudence:
This misbegotten step, that ill-timed grapple
Each wormy bite we take of rotten apple — each one marks us deep.
If harmed or just abash’d, some fuss-pot regulators’ soon at hand
To apportion reprimand. And soon thereafter to encode
In cryptic ciphers fresh directives which, thereafter, he

Inclusivia: Or she.

Regolamento: Or she — or they — abstain from explication,
But fix confusing rules in stone and thereby codify.
We know not whereof they mean: it might be stop, it might be go.
No further light forthcomes about. We imagine neither do they know.

Queen: Canst thou not obtain a ruling?

Nuncle: A worthy thought. A pretty feeling.
And ask them, while you’re there, to nail your jelly to the ceiling.
Th’official who binds his fate to instruments unfathom’d
E’en if his own, is a rare and special bird.

Regolamento: We take our bitter medicines
E’en while we let this gleaming engine stack silt up
As like a discarded hulk, half-buried in the mud at Tilbury
In that rich and loamy sod low stunted shrubs
Whose thorny limbs the squalling wind doth shriek.
We set our team with adze and axe and secateurs
They hack at growling branches who mandate
This matchèd trade, that time-stamp, some other reckoning of pedantry.
But it is a labour more riskful then rewarding.