<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344133" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Survey</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our money's all spent, to the deuce went it!<br>The landlord, he looks glum,<br>On the tap-room wall, in a very bad scrawl,<br>He has chalked to us a sum.<br>But a glass we'll take, ere the grey dawn break,<br>And then saddle up and away<br>Theodolite-tum, theodolite-ti, theodolite-too-ral-ay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a measured beat fall our horses' feet,<br>Galloping side by side;<br>When the money's done, and we've had our fun,<br>We all are bound to ride.<br>O'er the far-off plain we'll drag the chain,<br>And mark the settler's way<br>Theodolite-tum, theodolite-ti, theodolite-too-ral-ay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'll range from the creeks to the mountain peaks,<br>And traverse far below;<br>Where foot never trod, we'll mark with a rod<br>The limits of endless snow;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each lofty crag we'll plant with a flag,<br>To flash in the sun's bright ray<br>Theodolite-tum, theodolite-ti, theodolite-too-ral-ay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till with cash hard-earned once more returned,<br>At &quot;The Beaver&quot; bars we'll shout;<br>And the very bad scrawl that's against the wall<br>Ourselves shall see wiped out.<br>Such were the ways in the good old days!<br>The days of the old survey!<br>Theodolite-tum, theodolite-ti, theodolite-too-ral-ay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344133" data-title="The Old Survey de Andrew Barton Paterson" data-description="Our money's all spent, to the deuce went it! The landlord, he looks glum, On the tap-room wall, in a very bad scrawl, He has chalked to us a sum. But a glass we'll take, ere the grey dawn break, And then saddle up and away Theodolite-tum, theodoli..."></div> </div> </div>

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