kpsRegular Boarder

I'm mostly interested in posable figures to make photos, since I can build but not draw.

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
  To call upon a neighbour 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 'em 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.”

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And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
  But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
  You 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 any-one Dane-geld,
  No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
  And the nation that pays it is lost!”

Rudyard Kipling