MillRatUSMC
09-21-06, 12:05 PM
"What would you have me do?
Search out some powerful patronage, and be
Like crawling ivy to a tree?
No thank you. Dedicate, like all the others
Verses to plutocrats, while caution smothers
Whatever might offend my lord and master?
No thank you...Labouring to write a line of
such good breeding Its only fault is that it's not
worth reading? To ingratiate myself, abject
with fear, And fawn and flatter to avoid a sneer?
No thank you, no thank you, and again, no thank you."
Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac, 1897
Search out some powerful patronage, and be
Like crawling ivy to a tree?
No thank you. Dedicate, like all the others
Verses to plutocrats, while caution smothers
Whatever might offend my lord and master?
No thank you...Labouring to write a line of
such good breeding Its only fault is that it's not
worth reading? To ingratiate myself, abject
with fear, And fawn and flatter to avoid a sneer?
No thank you, no thank you, and again, no thank you."
Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac, 1897