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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345915" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Holy Dan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was in the Queensland drought;<br>And over hill and dell,<br>No grass – the water far apart,<br>All dry and hot as hell.<br>The wretched bullock teams drew up<br>Beside a water-hole –<br>They’d struggled on through dust and drought<br>For days to reach this goal.<br>And though the water rendered forth<br>A rank, unholy stench,<br>The bullocks and the bullockies<br>Drank deep their thirst to quench.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two of the drivers cursed and swore<br>As only drivers can.<br>The other one, named Daniel,<br>Best known as Holy Dan,<br>Admonished them and said it was<br>The Lord’s all-wise decree;<br>And if they’d only watch and wait,<br>A change they’d quickly see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">’Twas strange that of Dan’s bullocks<br>Not one had gone aloft,<br>But this, he said, was due to prayer<br>And supplication oft.<br>At last one died but Dan was calm,<br>He hardly seemed to care;<br>He knelt beside the bullock’s corpse<br>And offered up a prayer.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;One bullock Thou has taken, Lord,<br>And so it seemeth best.<br>Thy will be done, but see my need<br>And spare to me the rest!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A month went by. Dan’s bullocks now<br>Were dying every day,<br>But still on each occasion would<br>The faithful fellow pray,<br>&quot;Another Thou has taken, Lord,<br>And so it seemeth best.<br>Thy will be done, but see my need,<br>And spare to me the rest!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And still they camped beside the hole,<br>And still it never rained,<br>And still Dan’s bullocks died and died,<br>Till only one remained.<br>Then Dan broke down – good Holy Dan –<br>The man who never swore.<br>He knelt beside the latest corpse,<br>And here’s the prayer he prore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;That’s nineteen Thou has taken, Lord,<br>And now You’ll plainly see<br>You’d better take the bloody lot,<br>One’s no damn good to me.&quot;<br>The other riders laughed so much<br>They shook the sky around;<br>The lightning flashed, the thunder roared,<br>And Holy Dan was drowned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anonymous+Oceania">Anonymous Oceania</a><div class=q>
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And over hill and dell,
No grass – the water far apart,
All dry and hot as hell.
The wretched bullock teams drew up
Beside a water-hole –
They’d struggled on through dust and drought
For days to reach this g..."></div>
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