Pansies (Lawrence)/Censors

CENSORS
Censors are dead menset up to judge between life and death.For no live, sunny man would be a censor,he'd just laugh.
But censors, being dead menhave a stern eye on life.—That thing's alive! It's dangerous. Make away with it!—And when the execution is performedyou hear the stertorous, self-righteous heavy breathing of the dead men,the censors, breathing with relief.