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{{script|Regolamento}}: Th’untended thatch of shin-tangling rulery sleepeth not. | {{script|Regolamento}}: Th’untended thatch of shin-tangling rulery sleepeth not. | ||
Slim principles of | Slim principles of good behaviour — short days ago, a waxing star | ||
Was there | 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. | |||
{{script|Queen}}: Doth statutory obeisance bring you low? | |||
{{script|Nuncle}}: Not so low he couldn’t raise an army, liege. | |||
{{script|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 every little act hemmed in by rainbow rules of ill-scop’d application. | |||
Ours not to make reply nor reason why — | |||
But silent and comply. | |||
{{script|Queen}}: What causeth this? | |||
{{script|Regolamento}}: The ropish scars of distant misadventure | |||
Each shrill response to imprudent trips and grapples | |||
Each time we suffer a wormy bite of rotten apple, | |||
Whether harmed or just embarrassed, some busy-body is at hand | |||
To record, reflect, to punish, and encode | |||
In cryptic ciphers which thereafter he or she doth not deign to explain or change. | |||
It set in stone and codified, for good or ill. | |||
{{script|Queen}}: Canst thou not get a ruling? | |||
{{script|Nuncle}}: A worthy thought. A pretty feeling. | |||
And ask him, while you’re there, to nail jelly to the ceiling. | |||
{{script|Regolamento}}: We take our bitter medicines | |||
Ev’n 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. | 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 | We set our team with adze and axe and secateurs | ||
They hack at growling branches -who mandate this matchèd trade, time-stamp that contemporaneously, for aught but some pedantic reconciliation. | They hack at growling branches -who mandate this matchèd trade, time-stamp that contemporaneously, for aught but some pedantic reconciliation. | ||
But it is a labour more riskful then rewarding. | But it is a labour more riskful then rewarding. | ||
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