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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358015" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Wobble</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the Wobble went out on the roaring tide,<br>With a dry dog trotting along by its side;<br>Went over the sea - and I vow right here<br>That the Wobble went out with its views as clear<br>As ever the views of a Wobble could be;<br>And the Wobble went out and over the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Went over the sea for to represent<br>The folk of our island continent;<br>Went over to England where dukes and lords,<br>And princes, and barons, and earls in hordes,<br>And bankers, and boodlers, and scores of Jews<br>Were burning to hear of Australia's views.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">0, the Wobble went over to advertise<br>(For it was a Wobble of goodly size)<br>The things that we grow and the things that we breed <br>Our eggs and our bacon and butter and seed,<br>The health of our air and the worth of our earth <br>(For it was a Wobble of generous girth) <br>And it's quite a true saying, as ev'ryone knows,<br>A Wobble's a Wobble wherever it goes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Wobble went forth from its native land,<br>And when they espied it adrift on the Strand<br>All the American tourists laff't:<br>'Why, if that ain't the double of our old TAFT!'<br>And when it appeared later on in The Row,<br>All the duchiest duchesses viewed the show,<br>And they said: 'There is nothing can advertise<br>A country so well as a Wobble of size.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And they asked it along for a feed and a swill,<br>And a talk after dinner, as Englishmen will,<br>And there's nothing on earth like a gabble and gobble<br>Appeals to a healthy and well-bred Wobble.<br>And when it arose at the festive board<br>The barons and aldermen loudly roared.<br>With the dukes and the generals, 'That's the bloke!<br>That's the famous and only Australian Joke!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It's the Globular Jest with the Monocled Eye<br>That makes the Australians 1augh till they cry<br>The bankers and boodlers and Park Lane Jews<br>Wept great, glad teara in the jellies and stews;<br>The Lord High Chancellor spllt his vest,<br>While the baronets, admirals, peers and the rest<br>Agreed with the bishops and Irish M.P.'s<br>That no funnier Wobble came over the seas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Wobble gazed solemnly round the board,<br>While England's nobility shouted and roared<br>But it didn't enlarge on the things that we grow<br>Or the things that we breed or we dig, 0 no;<br>But it struck a delightfully humorous note<br>As it dealt with the things we, at intervals, float.<br>And it gravely declared that, as ev'ryone knows,<br>A feller's far better without any clothes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'For a man,' said the Wobble, 'that uses his cash<br>For his personal needs is exceedingly rash.<br>He should gather his money and bury it in<br>A bit of old bagging or kerosene tin<br>At the end of the garden, then hasten to pop<br>His garments and things at his relative's shop.<br>He should hurry to Uncle and cheerfully float<br>A loan on his boots and his hat and his coat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And when you have blewed all that little advance<br>Don't dig up your money - not by any chance;<br>But pawn your etceteras, weskit and socks,<br>And the spare shirt and collars you keep on the box;<br>For it's better for Uncle and better for you,<br>And better by far for the little ones too.<br>And the whole darn family's more content<br>When the wardrobe is soaking at four per cent.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">O, every baton and duke and lord<br>He clung to the table and shrieked and roared;<br>And the Lord Chief Justice was heard to declare<br>That a Wobble so droll was exceedingly rare;<br>And all the financiers, COHEN and MOSES,<br>Laughed till the tears trickled over their noses;<br>And ev'ryone shouted, with hearty 'Ho, ho's,'<br>'Just fancy a Wobble without any clothes!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Baron of Bath threw a fit, and his Grace<br>The Bishop of Brixton went black to the face.<br>And I put it to you, as a man to a man:<br>Do you honestly think that Australia can<br>Ever hope to be blessed with another such prize<br>As a humorous Wobble to advertise?<br>For it's quite a true saying, as ev'ryone knows,<br>A Wobble's a Wobble wherever it goes.</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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Went over the sea - and I vow right here
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