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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357982" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Push</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Becos a crook done in a prince, an' narked an Emperor,<br>An' struck a light that set the world aflame;<br>Becos the bugles East an' West sooled on the dawgs o' war,<br>A bloke called Ginger Mick 'as found 'is game <br>Found 'is game an' found 'is brothers, 'oo wus strangers in 'is sight,<br>Till they shed their silly clobber an' put on the duds fer fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, they've shed their silly clobber an' the other stuff they wore<br>Fer to 'ide the man beneath it in the past;<br>An' each man is the clean, straight man 'is Maker meant 'im for,<br>An' each man knows 'is brother man at last.<br>Shy strangers, till a bugle blast preached 'oly brother'ood;<br>But mateship they 'ave found at last; an' they 'ave found it good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So the lumper, an' the lawyer, an' the chap 'oo shifted sand,<br>They are cobbers wiv the cove 'oo drove a quill;<br>They knut 'oo swung a cane upon the Block, 'e takes the 'and<br>Uv the coot 'oo swung a pick on Broken 'Ill;<br>An' Privit Clord Augustus drills wiv Privit Snarky Jim <br>They are both Australian soljers, w'ich is good enough fer 'im.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's good enough fer orl uv 'em, as orl uv 'em 'ave seen<br>Since they got the same glad clobber next their skins;<br>An' the bloke 'oo 'olds the boodle an' the coot wivout a bean,<br>Why, they knock around like little Kharki twins.<br>An' they got a common lingo, w'ich is growin' mighty thick<br>Wiv ixpressive contributions frum the stock uv Ginger Mick.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'E 'as struck it fer a moral. Ginger's found 'is game at last,<br>An' 'e's took to it like ducklin's take to drink;<br>An' 'is slouchin' an' 'is grouchin' an' 'is loafin' uv the past <br>'E's done wiv 'em, an' dumped 'em down the sink.<br>'E's a bright an' shinin' sample uv a the'ry that I 'old:<br>That ev'ry 'eart that ever pumped is good fer chunks o' gold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ev'ry feller is a gold mine if yeh take an' work 'im right:<br>It is shinin' on the surface now an' then;<br>An' there's some is easy sinkin', but there's some wants dynermite,<br>Fer they looks a 'opeless prospect - yet they're men.<br>An' Ginger - 'ard-shell Ginger's showin' signs that 'e will pay;<br>But it took a flamin' world-war fer to blarst 'is crust away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But they took 'im an' they drilled 'im an' they shipped 'im overseas<br>Wiv a crowd uv blokes 'e never met before.<br>'E rowed wiv 'em, an' scrapped wiv 'em, an' done some tall C.B.'s,<br>An' 'e lobbed wiv 'em on Egyp's sandy shore.<br>Then Pride o' Race lay 'olt on 'im, an' Mick shoves out 'is chest<br>To find 'imself Australian an' blood brothers wiv the rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I gits some reel good readin' in the letter wot 'e sent<br>Tho' the spellin's pretty rotten now an' then.<br>'I 'ad the joes at first,' 'e sez; 'but now I'm glad I went,<br>Fer it's fine to be among reel, livin' men.<br>An' it's grand to be Australian, an' to say it good an' loud<br>When yeh bump a forrin country wiv sich fellers as our crowd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">''Struth! I've 'ung around me native land fer close on thirty year,<br>An' I never knoo wot men me cobbers were:<br>Never knoo that toffs wus white men till I met 'em over 'ere <br>Blokes an' coves I sort o' snouted over there.<br>Yes, I loafed aroun' me country; an' I never knoo 'er then;<br>But the reel, ribuck Australia's 'ere, among the fightin' men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'We've slung the swank fer good an' all; it don't fit in our plan;<br>To skite uv birth an' boodle is a crime.<br>A man wiv us, why, 'e's a man becos 'e is a man,<br>An' a reel red-'ot Australian ev'ry time.<br>Fer dawg an' side an' snobbery is down an' out fer keeps.<br>It's grit an' reel good fellership that gits yeh friends in 'caps.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There's a bloke 'oo shipped when I did; 'e wus lately frum 'is ma.<br> 'Oo 'ad filled 'im full uv notions uv 'is birth;<br>An' 'e overworked 'is aitches till 'e got the loud 'Ha-ha'<br>Frum the fellers, but 'e wouldn't come to earth.<br>I bumped 'is lordship, name o' Keith, an' 'ad a little row,<br>An' 'e lost some chunks uv beauty; but 'e's good Australian now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There is Privit Snifty Thompson, 'oo wus once a Sydney rat,<br>An' 'e 'ung around the Rocks when 'e wus young.<br>There's little Smith uv Collin'wood, wiv fags stuck in 'is 'at,<br>An' a string uv dirty insults on 'is tongue.<br>A corperil took them in 'and - a lad frum Lameroo.<br>Now both is nearly gentlemen, an' good Australians too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There's one, 'e doesn't tork a lot, 'e sez 'is name is Trent,<br>Jist a privit, but 'e knows 'is drill a treat;<br>A stand-orf bloke, but reel good pals wiv fellers in 'is tent,<br>But 'is 'ome an' 'istoree 'as got 'em beat.<br>They reckon when 'e starts to bleed 'e'll stain 'is Kharki blue;<br>An' 'is lingo smells uv Oxford - but 'e's good Australian too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Then there's Lofty Craig uv Queensland, 'oo's a special pal uv mine;<br>Slow an' shy, an' kind o' nervous uv 'is height;<br>An' Jupp, 'oo owns a copper show, an' arsts us out to dine<br>When we're doo fer leave in Cairo uv a night.<br>An' there's Bills an' Jims an' Bennos, an' there's Roys an' 'Arolds too,<br>An' they're cobbers, an' they're brothers, an' Australians thro' an' thro'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There is farmers frum the Mallec, there is bushmen down frum Bourke,<br>There's college men wiv letters to their name;<br>There is grafters, an' there's blokes 'oo never done a 'ard day's work<br>Till they tumbled, wiv the rest, into the game <br>An' they're drillin' 'ere together, men uv ev'ry creed an' kind<br>It's Australia! Solid! Dinkum! that 'as left the land be'ind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'An' if yeh want a slushy, or a station overseer,<br>Or a tinker, or a tailor, or a snob,<br>Or a 'andy bloke wiv 'orses, or a minin' ingineer,<br>Why, we've got the very man to do yer job.<br>Butcher, baker, undertaker, or a Caf' de Pary chef,<br>'E is waitin', keen an' ready, in the little A.I.F.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'An' they've drilled us. Strike me lucky! but they've drilled us fer a cert!<br>We 'ave trod around ole Egyp's burnin' sand<br>Till I tells meself at evenin', when I'm wringin' out me shirt,<br>That we're built uv wire an' green-'ide in our land.<br>Strike! I thort I knoo 'ard yakker, w'ish I've tackled many ways,<br>But uv late I've took a tumble I bin dozin' orl me days.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It's a game, lad,' writes ole Ginger, 'it's a game I'm likin' grand,<br>An' I'm tryin' fer a stripe to fill in time;<br>I 'ave took a pull on shicker fer the honour uv me land,<br>An' I'm umpty round the chest an' feelin' prime.<br>Yeh kin tell Rose, if yeh see 'er, I serloots 'er o'er the foam,<br>An' we'll 'ave a cray fer supper when I comes a'marchin' 'ome.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So ole Ginger sends a letter, an' 'is letter's good to read,<br>Fer the things 'e sez, an' some things 'e leaves out;<br>An' when a bloke like 'im wakes up an' starts to take a 'eed,<br>Well, it's sort o' worth the writin' 'ome about.<br>'E's one uv many little things Australia chanced to find<br>She never knoo she 'ad around till bugles cleared 'er mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Becos ole Europe lost 'er block an' started 'eavin' bricks,<br>Becos the bugles wailed a song uv war,<br>We found reel gold down in the 'earts uv orl our Ginger Micks<br>We never thort worth minin' fer before.<br>An' so, I'm tippin' we will pray, before our win is scored:<br>'Thank God for Mick, an' Bill an' Jim, an' little brother Clord.'</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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