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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357516" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've knowed ole Flood this last five year or more;<br>I knoo 'im when 'is Syd went to the war.<br>A proud ole man 'e was. But I've watched 'im,<br>An' seen 'is look when people spoke uv Jim:<br>As sour a look as most coves want to see.<br>It made me glad that this 'ere Jim weren't me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sized up Flood the first day that we met <br>Stubborn as blazes when 'is mind is set,<br>Ole-fashioned in 'is looks an' in 'is ways,<br>Believin' it is honesty that pays;<br>An' still dead set, in spite uv bumps 'e's got,<br>To keep on honest if it pays or not.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor ole Dad Flood, 'e is too old to fight<br>By close on thirty year; but if I'm right<br>About 'is doin's an' about 'is grit,<br>'E's done a fair bit over 'is fair bit.<br>They are too old to fight, but, all the same,<br>'Is kind's quite young enough to play the game.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've 'eard it called, this war - an' it's the truth <br>I've 'eard it called the sacrifice uv youth.<br>An' all this land 'as reckernized it too,<br>An' gives the boys the praises that is doo.<br>I've 'eard the cheers for ev'ry fightin' lad;<br>But, up to now, I ain't 'eard none for Dad.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ole Flood, an' all 'is kind throughout the land,<br>They aint' been 'eralded with no brass band,<br>Or been much thought about; but, take my tip,<br>The war 'as found them with a stiffened lip.<br>'Umpin' a load they thought they'd dropped for good,<br>Crackin' reel 'ardy, an' - jist sawin' wood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dad Flood, 'is back is bent, 'is strength is gone;<br>'E'd done 'is bit before this war come on.<br>At sixty-five 'e thought 'is work was done;<br> 'E gave the farmin' over to 'is son,<br>An' jist sat back in peace, with 'is ole wife,<br>To spend content the ev'nin' of 'is life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then comes the war. An' when Syd 'esitates<br>Between the ole folk an' 'is fightin' mates,<br>The ole man goes outside an' grabs a hoe.<br>Sez 'e, 'Yeh want to, an' yeh ought to go.<br>Wot's stoppin' yeh?' 'E straightens 'is ole frame.<br>'Ain't I farmed long enough to know the game?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There weren't no more to say. An' Syd went - West:<br>Into the sunset with ole Aussie's best.<br>But no one ever 'eard no groans from Dad.<br>Though all 'is pride an' 'ope was in that lad<br>'E showed no sign excep' to grow more grim.<br>'Is son was gone - an' it was up to 'im.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day last month when I was down at Flood's<br>I see 'im strugglin' with a bag uv spuds.<br>'Look 'ere,' I sez, 'you let me spell yeh, Dad.<br>You 'umpin' loads like that's a bit too bad.'<br>'E gives a grunt that's more than 'alf a groan.<br>'Wot's up?' 'e snaps. 'Got no work uv yer own?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's 'im. But I've been tippin' that the pace<br>Would tell; an' when 'is wife comes to our place,<br>An' sez that Dad 'is ill an' took to bed,<br>Flat out with work - though that ain't wot she said <br>I ain't surprised; an' tells 'er when I'm thro'<br>I'll come across an' see wot I can do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I went across, an' - I come back again.<br>Strike me! it's no use reas'nin' with some men.<br>Stubbon ole cows! I'm sick uv them ole fools.<br>The way 'e yells, 'Keep yer 'ands off my tools!'<br>Yeh'd think I was a thief. 'Is missus said<br>I'd better slope, or 'e'd be out uv bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'E 'eard us talkin' through the open door,<br>'Oo's that?' he croaks, although 'e tries to roar.<br>An' when 'is wife explains it's only me<br>To 'elp a bit: 'I want no charity!'<br>'E barks. 'I'll do me work meself, yeh 'ear?'<br>An' then 'e gits so snarky that I clear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But 'e'll do me. I like the ole boy's nerve.<br>We don't do nothin' that 'e don't deserve;<br>But me an' Peter Begg an' ole man Poole,<br>We fairly 'as our work cut out to fool<br>The sly ole fox, when we sneaks down each day<br>An' works a while to keep things under way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We digs a bit, an' ploughs a bit, an' chops<br>The wood, an' does the needful to 'is crops.<br>We does it soft, an' when 'e 'ears a row<br>'Is missus tells 'im it's the dog or cow.<br>'E sez that it's queer noises for a pup.<br>An' - there'll be ructions when ole Flood gits up.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It ain't all overwork that's laid 'im out.<br>Ole Pride in 'im is fightin' 'ard with Doubt.<br>To-day 'is wife sez, 'Somethin's strange in 'im,<br>For in 'is sleep sometimes 'e calls for Jim.<br>It's six long years,' she sez, an' stops to shake<br>'Er 'ead. 'But 'e don't mention 'im awake.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dad Flood. I thought 'im jist a stiff-necked fool<br>Before the war; but, as I sez to Poole,<br>This war 'as tested more than fightin' men.<br>But, say, 'e is an' 'oly terror when<br>Friends try to 'elp 'im earn a bite an' sup.<br>Oh, there'll be 'Ell to pay when 'e gits up!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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I knoo 'im when 'is Syd went to the war.
A proud ole man 'e was. But I've watched 'im,
An' seen 'is look when people spoke uv Jim:
As sour a look as most coves want to see.
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