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It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation to call upon a neighbor and to say,

we invaded you last night we are quite prepared to fight unless you pay us cash to go away.

And that is called asking for Dane Geld and the people who ask it explain that you've only

to pay him the Dane Geld and then you'll get rid of the Dane.

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation to puff and look important and to say,

though we know we should defeat you,

we have not the time to meet you.

We will therefore pay you cash to go away.

And that is called paying the Dane Geld,

but we've proved it again and again,

that if you have paid him the Dane Guild,

you'll never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,

for fear they should succumb and go astray.

So when you are requested to pay up or be molested, you will find it better policy to say.

We never pay anyone, Dangales, no matter how trifling the cost, for the end of that

game is oppression and shame, and the nation that pays it is lost.

Dane Geld, a poem by Rudyard Kipling.

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him,

in a spirit of gentleness.

Keep watch on yourself lest you to be tempted.

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