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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116469" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad on the American War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When Guilford good our pilot stood<br>An' did our hellim thraw, man,<br>Ae night, at tea, began a plea,<br>Within America, man:<br>Then up they gat the maskin-pat,<br>And in the sea did jaw, man;<br>An' did nae less, in full congress,<br>Than quite refuse our law, man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then thro' the lakes Montgomery takes,<br>I wat he was na slaw, man;<br>Down Lowrie's Burn he took a turn,<br>And Carleton did ca', man:<br>But yet, whatreck, he, at Quebec,<br>Montgomery-like did fa', man,<br>Wi' sword in hand, before his band,<br>Amang his en'mies a', man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor Tammy Gage within a cage<br>Was kept at Boston-ha', man;<br>Till Willie Howe took o'er the knowe<br>For Philadelphia, man;<br>Wi' sword an' gun he thought a sin<br>Guid Christian bluid to draw, man;<br>But at New York, wi' knife an' fork,<br>Sir-Loin he hacked sma', man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Burgoyne gaed up, like spur an' whip,<br>Till Fraser brave did fa', man;<br>Then lost his way, ae misty day,<br>In Saratoga shaw, man.<br>Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought,<br>An' did the Buckskins claw, man;<br>But Clinton's glaive frae rust to save,<br>He hung it to the wa', man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Montague, an' Guilford too,<br>Began to fear, a fa', man;<br>And Sackville dour, wha stood the stour,<br>The German chief to thraw, man:<br>For Paddy Burke, like ony Turk,<br>Nae mercy had at a', man;<br>An' Charlie Fox threw by the box,<br>An' lows'd his tinkler jaw, man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Rockingham took up the game,<br>Till death did on him ca', man;<br>When Shelburne meek held up his cheek,<br>Conform to gospel law, man:<br>Saint Stephen's boys, wi' jarring noise,<br>They did his measures thraw, man;<br>For North an' Fox united stocks,<br>An' bore him to the wa', man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then clubs an' hearts were Charlie's cartes,<br>He swept the stakes awa', man,<br>Till the diamond's ace, of Indian race,<br>Led him a sair faux pas, man:<br>The Saxon lads, wi' loud placads,<br>On Chatham's boy did ca', man;<br>An' Scotland drew her pipe an' blew,<br>"Up, Willie, waur them a', man!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behind the throne then Granville's gone,<br>A secret word or twa, man;<br>While slee Dundas arous'd the class<br>Be-north the Roman wa', man:<br>An' Chatham's wraith, in heav'nly graith,<br>(Inspired bardies saw, man),<br>Wi' kindling eyes, cry'd, "Willie, rise!<br>Would I hae fear'd them a', man?"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, word an' blow, North, Fox, and Co.<br>Gowff'd Willie like a ba', man;<br>Till Suthron raise, an' coost their claise<br>Behind him in a raw, man:<br>An' Caledon threw by the drone,<br>An' did her whittle draw, man;<br>An' swoor fu' rude, thro' dirt an' bluid,<br>To mak it guid in law, man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Burns">Robert Burns</a><div class=q>
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