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{{script|Complicatio}}: Ma’am, consigned by unfunny fate | |||
To live a life of cost, unloved upon in the ledger. | |||
’tis the human stain of clammy operations | |||
Ruinously peopled by myriad technicians, each one | |||
{{Script|Queen}}: The heavens doth | Steeped, til the cup is cold, in his own dismal science. | ||
{{Script|Nuncle}} | Or hers, or theirs, or its, or xes — | ||
I am thus and then obliged. I own the [[service line]] | |||
It falls to me to work upon our stretchèd silos, | |||
Yoked and tethered as a measurèd beast. | |||
Yegads, they | Upon whose saddled back our fiscal fate depends. | ||
And here, our dilemma: the very men who work the chainèd cranks — | |||
Or women — or unsure, or curious, or as yet unaligned— | |||
{{Script|Queen}}: The heavens doth anoint! | |||
{{script|Complicatio}}: Milady? | |||
{{Script|Nuncle}}: Pray, spare the conjugations, sir: | |||
Their majesty doth get the point. | |||
{{script|Queen}}: It is a pretty speech so far. But has it any meat? | |||
{{script|Complicatio}}: I am — we are — obliged. | |||
Those eager souls whose cadences power our jalopy | |||
By inevitable heft they play as weighty anchors. | |||
{{Script|Nuncle}}: Call the Reverend Spooner! | |||
{{script|Complicatio}}: Yegads, but are they inconstant. Oafish! Fickle! Slow! | |||
Best by inattendery. Oh! | |||
Yet herein will I imitate the sun, | Yet herein will I imitate the sun, | ||
Who doth permit the base contagious clouds | Who doth permit the base contagious clouds | ||
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To sport would be as tedious as to work; | To sport would be as tedious as to work; | ||
But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, | But when they seldom come, they wish'd for come, | ||
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. | And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. | ||
So, when this loose behavior I throw off | So, when this loose behavior I throw off | ||
And pay the debt I never promised, | And pay the debt I never promised, |