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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357750" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Over the Fence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Taint my idea uv argument to call a man a fool,<br>An' I ain't lookin' round for bricks to 'eave at ole man Poole;<br>But when 'e gets disputin' 'e's inclined to lose 'is 'ead.<br>It ain't so much 'is choice uv words as 'ow the words is said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'E's sich a coot for takin' sides, as I sez to Doreen.<br>Sez she, ''Ow can 'e, by 'imself?' Wotever that may mean.<br>My wife sez little things sometimes that nearly git me riled.<br>I knoo she meant more than she said be that soft way she smiled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today, when I was 'arrowin', Poole come down to the fence<br>To get the loan uv my long spade; an' uses that pretence<br>To 'ave a bit uv friendly talk, an' one word leads to more,<br>As is the way with ole man Poole, as I've remarked before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The spade reminds 'im 'ow 'e done some diggin' in 'is day,<br>An' diggin' brings the talk to earth, an' earth leads on to clay,<br>Then clay quite natural reminds a thinkin' bloke uv bricks,<br>An' mortar brings up mud, an' then, uv course it's politics.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now Poole sticks be 'is Party, an' I don't deny 'is right;<br>But when he starts abusin' mine 'e's lookin' for a fight.<br>So I delivers good 'ome truths about 'is crowd, then Poole<br>Wags 'is ole beard across the fence an' tells me I'm a fool.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now that's the dizzy limit; so I lays aside the reins,<br>An' starts to prove 'e's storin' mud where most blokes keeps their brains.<br>'E decorates 'is answers, an' we're goin' it ding-dong,<br>When this returned bloke, Digger Smith, comes sauntering along.<br>Poole's gripped the fence as though 'e means to tear the rails in two,<br>An' eyes my waggin' finger like 'e wants to 'ave a chew.<br>Then Digger Smith 'e grins at Poole, an' then 'e looks at me,<br>An' sez, quite soft an' friendly-like, 'Winnin' the war?' sez 'e.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now, Poole deserves it, an' I'm pleased the lad give 'im that jolt.<br>'E goes fair mad in argument when once 'e gets a holt.<br>'Yeh make me sad,' sez Digger Smith; 'the both uv you,' sez 'e.<br>'The both uv us! Gawstruth!' sez I. 'You ain't includin' me?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Well, it takes two to make a row,' sez little Digger Smith.<br>'A bloke can't argue 'less 'e 'as a bloke to argue with.<br>I've come 'ome from a dinkum scap to find this land uv light<br>Is chasin' its own tail around an' callin' it a fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'We've seen a thing or two, us blokes 'oo've fought on many fronts;<br>An' we've 'ad time to think a bit between the fightin' stunts,<br>We've seen big things, an' thought big things, an' all the silly fuss,<br>That used to get us rattled once, seems very small to us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'An' when a bloke's fought for a land an' gets laid on the shelf<br>It pains 'im to come 'ome and find it scrappin' with itself;<br>An' scrappin' all for nothin', or for things that look so small <br>To us, 'oo've been in bigger things, they don't seem reel at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'P'r'aps we 'ave some skite knocked out, an' p'r'aps we see more clear,<br>But seems to us there's plenty cleanin' up to do round 'ere.<br>We've learnt a little thing or two, an' we 'ave unlearnt 'eaps,<br>An' silly partisans, with us, is counted out for keeps.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'This takin' sides jist for the sake uv takin' sides - Aw, 'Struth!<br>I used to do them things one time, back in me foolish youth.<br>Out There, when I remembered things, I've kicked meself reel good.<br>In football days I barracked once red 'ot for Collin'wood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I didn't want to see a game, nor see no justice done.<br>It never mattered wot occurred as long as my side won.<br>The other side was narks an' cows an' rotters to a man;<br>But mine was all reel bonzer chaps. I was a partisan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It might sound like swelled-'ead,' sez Smith. 'But show me, if you can.'…<br>''Old 'ard,' sez Poole. 'Jist tell me this: wot is a partisan?'<br>Then Digger Smith starts to ixplain; Poole interrupts straight out;<br>An' I wades in to give my views, an' 'as to nearly shout.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We battles on for one good hour. My team sleeps where it stands;<br>An' Poole 'as tossed the spade away to talk with both 'is 'ands.<br>An' Smith 'as dropped the maul 'e 'ad. Then I looks round to see<br>Doreen quite close. She smiles at us. 'Winnin' the war?' sez she.</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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But when 'e gets disputin' 'e's inclined to lose 'is 'ead.
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