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II. Half-Rome

What, you, Sir, come too? (Just the man I'd meet.)
Be ruled by me and have a care o' the crowd:
This way, while fresh folk go and get their gaze:
I'll tell you like a book and save your shins.
Fie, what a roaring day we've had! Whose fault?
Lorenzo in Lucina,—here's a church
To hold a crowd at need, accommodate
All comers from the Corso! If this crush
Make not its priests ashamed of what they show
For temple-room, don't prick them to draw purse
And down with bricks and mortar, eke us out
The beggarly transept with its bit of apse
Into a decent space for Christian ease,
Why, to-day's lucky pearl is cast to swine.
Listen and estimate the luck they've had!
(The right man, and I hold him.)

Sir, do you see,
They laid both bodies in the church, this morn
The first thing, on the chancel two steps up,

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poem by Robert Browning from The Ring and the Book
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V. Count Guido Franceschini

Thanks, Sir, but, should it please the reverend Court,
I feel I can stand somehow, half sit down
Without help, make shift to even speak, you see,
Fortified by the sip of … why, 't is wine,
Velletri,—and not vinegar and gall,
So changed and good the times grow! Thanks, kind Sir!
Oh, but one sip's enough! I want my head
To save my neck, there's work awaits me still.
How cautious and considerate … aie, aie, aie,
Nor your fault, sweet Sir! Come, you take to heart
An ordinary matter. Law is law.
Noblemen were exempt, the vulgar thought,
From racking; but, since law thinks otherwise,
I have been put to the rack: all's over now,
And neither wrist—what men style, out of joint:
If any harm be, 't is the shoulder-blade,
The left one, that seems wrong i' the socket,—Sirs,
Much could not happen, I was quick to faint,
Being past my prime of life, and out of health.
In short, I thank you,—yes, and mean the word.

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poem by Robert Browning from The Ring and the Book
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I think the themes of belonging and parentage and love are obviously universal.

quote by Christopher Eccleston
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

quote by George Bernard Shaw
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

quote by Walter Besant
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.

quote by Gary Lucas
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An ode to unborn babies

Hello..., unborn babies
in everymother's womb
Here is an advice
It is better to get aborted
than born
Here birth is a ritual
death a relief
Play is a competition
Education a business
Love is lust
Lust is soulless
Marriage is a contract
Parentage is investment
Home is just a house
Old age, a curse
Love for parents, a duty
It is better to be aborted
than be born.

poem by Anirudh Induchudan Anirudh Induchudan
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Benjamin Franklin

Franklin fathered bastards fourteen,
(So I read in the New Yorker);
If it's true, in terms of courtin'
Benny must have been a corker.
To be prudent I've aspired,
And my passions I have mastered;
So that I have never sired
A single bastard.

One of course can never know;
But I think that if I had
It would give me quite a glow
When a kiddie called me 'Dad.'
Watching toddlers at their play,
Parentage I'd gladly claim,
But their mothers smiling say:
'You're not to blame.'

Ben founded the Satevepost,
And for that I much respect him;

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poem by Robert William Service
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A Silence

past parentage or gender
beyond sung vocables
the slipped-between
the so infinitesimal
fault line
a limitless
interiority

beyond the woven
unicorn the maiden
(man-carved worm-eaten)
God at her hip
incipient
the untransfigured
cottontail
bluebell and primrose
growing wild a strawberry
chagrin night terrors
past the earthlit
unearthly masquerade

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poem by Amy Clampitt
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A Hard Decision Taken...

Rejoicing in the appellate of a learned; Father’s happiness, mother’s concern, Anticipating the graduation of a law scholar Parentage optimism, friends’ accolades, Studying in the ebullient mood of an accomplisher; Hopes high, relaxation short, status great, Living as Christ would live on earth; The fervency of a Christian, the readiness to go to heaven, Listening to the message on restitution; Pastor preached, my heart-arrested, A reminiscence of a source to my scholarship; Heaven spoke; obedience needed, A state of dilemma waiting for my choice; Here lies a threat to my career! The call of GOD persistently rings, I must obey; Neglecting the vanity in the pride of life; Forsaking the pleasures in the accolades from friends; Deciding towards meeting the will of GOD; I give up all that is not His and echo: OH LORD THY WILL BE DONE…

poem by Adebiyi Adekunle Oluwaseun
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