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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=357633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>It Was Never Contemplated</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=357633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">When old ADAM bit the apple,<br>And thereafter had to grapple<br>With hard toil to earn his daily bread by sweat,<br>There's no doubt that he protested<br>That his 'rights' had been molested,<br>And he's probably protesting strongly yet:<br>'When this garden was created<br>It was never contemplated <br>It was never in the schedule or the plan <br>'Twasn't even dimly hinted<br>That my living would be stinted,<br>Or that Work would ever be the lot of man.'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=357633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But in spite of protestation<br>ADAM, with his lone relation,<br>Was evicted in an arbitrary way,<br>Even though that resolution<br>Wasn't in the Constitution,<br>And his children have been grafting to this day.<br>But poor ADAM'S old contention<br>Has become a stock convention<br>'Mid the ADAMS of the nations ever since,<br>'Mid the shufflers and the shirkers,<br>Crusted Tory anti-workers,<br>They whom nought but 'precedent' can e'er convince.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=357633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">They're the ADAMS of the race; they're the men that clog the pace,<br>With their backs upon the vanguard and their eyes upon the rear;<br>Praising loud their point of view, and regarding owt that's new<br>With a rabid Tory hatred and a vague old-fashioned fear.<br>They're the men of yester-year loitering all needless here,<br>And meandering around and 'round in aimless, endless rings.<br>Ever ready to resent acts without a precedent,<br>Such as were not contemplated in the ancient scheme of things.<br>'O, it was not contemplated!'<br>'Tis the cry of the belated,<br>The complaint of all the Old Worlds waterlogged;<br>Tis the trade-mark of the Tory;<br>'Tis the declaration hoary;<br>'Tis the protest of the busted and the bogged.<br>Mark, whenever it is uttered <br>By the lips of ancients muttered,<br>There is wisdom lacking here, at any rate<br> For, when Tories were created<br>It was never contemplated<br>That they ever would attempt to contemplate.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=357633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There are many things decided,<br>Quite by precedent unguided.<br>It was never contemplated, by the way.<br>When the scheme of things was shaping,<br>And mankind emerged from aping,<br>That he'd ever learn to eat three times a day;<br>Yet, all precedent unheeding,<br>Even Tories time their feeding,<br>And are known to be quite regular at meals;<br>Though in neolithic ages<br>'Twas laid down by ancient sages<br>That a man shall eat when so inclined he feels.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=357633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He's the dead weight at the back; he's the log upon the track;<br>He's the man who shouts the warning when the danger's past and gone;<br>He's the prophet of the old by defunct traditions hold;<br>He's the chap who sits and twaddles while the crowd goes marching on.<br>Of the things uncontemplated in the councils of the dead;<br>But the nation marches by heedless of his bitter cry <br>Marches on and contemplates the vital things away ahead.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=357633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">In the shaping of a nation<br>Can we crowd all contemplation <br>Can we plan it in a hurried week or so?<br>Cease your ancient whiskered story<br>And observe, O gentle Tory,<br>We are contemplating matters as we go.<br>E'en to-day we're contemplating<br>Matters princip'ly relating<br>To the shaping of to-morrow's onward way;<br>And to-morrow ev'ry grafter<br>Will be forming plans for after;<br>But we are not harking back to yesterday.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=357633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">For the future days arranging;<br>Seeking, planning, ever changing;<br>Weeding out the old mistakes of yester-year;<br>Planting now the seed of new things<br>March the men who dare and do things,<br>Opening up the unblazed road without a fear.<br>And, O mark you, gentle Tory,<br>We shall judge your measures hoary<br>By the use in this day's scheme they represent;<br>We shall use them if we want them;<br>If we don't we shall supplant them,<br>For we do not care a damn for precedent.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=357633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He's discretion at its worst; he a harbinger reversed;<br>He's the obstinate old party who abhors the new and strange.<br>He's the man whose ancient eyes ever fail to recognise<br>That the Law of Man was ever Change, and ever will be Change.<br>He's a scoffer at the Law; he's a blemish and a flaw;<br>And he whines as did old ADAM when he lost the realms of bliss.<br>When they shored him in the cold in the parlous days of old:<br>'THIS WAS NEVER CONTEMPLATED! YOU'VE NO PRECEDENT FOR THIS!'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a></strong></div>