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C J Dennis - The IncorrigibleC J Dennis - The Incorrigible
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The bad boy of Europe,   He stands in dire disgrace, Crying too loud his innocence   While guilt grins from his face. The gangster and the racketeer   Earth`s honest folk disown, And the bad boy of Europe   He walks his way alone. In cynical dishonour   The world is not yet lost, As the dull boy of Europe   Discovers to his cost. Something is let to decency,   And something of fair play, As the shameless boy of Europe   Learns, to his vague dismay. Tho` nations yet be governed   By chiefs too worldly-wise, There runs an unclean pathway   From which men turn their eyes. Defined by laws unwritten,   There yet remains The Code; But the bad boy of Europe   Treads the forbidden road. Never, `mid Christian nations,   Shall might be counted right; And murder stays foul murder   Ever in just men`s sight. The wide world shall disown them   Who own that guilt-stained crew Whose acts belie their mouthings;   Whose mouthings ring untrue.
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