<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=350474" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>An Allegory</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The fight was over, and the battle won<br>A soldier, who beneath his chieftain’s eye<br>Had done a might deed and done it well,<br>And done it as the world will have it done—<br>A stab, a curse, some quick play of the butt,<br>Two skulls cracked crosswise, but the colours saved—<br>Proud of his wounds, proud of the promised cross,<br>Turned to his rear-rank man, who on his gun<br>Leant heavily apart. ‘Ho, friend!’ he called,<br>‘You did not fight then: were you left behind?<br>I saw you not.’ The other turned and showed<br>A gapping, red-lipped wound upon his breast.<br>‘Ah,’ said he sadly, ‘I was in the smoke!’<br>Threw up his arms, shivered, and fell and died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Barcroft+Henry+Thomas+Boake">Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake</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=350474" data-title="An Allegory de Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake" data-description="The fight was over, and the battle won A soldier, who beneath his chieftain’s eye Had done a might deed and done it well, And done it as the world will have it done— A stab, a curse, some quick play of the butt, Two skulls cracked crosswise, b..."></div> </div> </div>

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