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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366079" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Mates</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I came up to-night to the station, the tramp had been longish and cold,<br>My swag ain't too heavy to carry, but then I begin to get old. <br>I came through this way to the diggings -- how long will that be ago now?<br>Thirty years! how the country has altered, and miles of it under the plough,<br>And Jack was my mate on the journey -- we both run away from the sea;<br>He's got on in the world and I haven't, and now he looks sideways on me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We were mates, and that didn't mean jokers who meets for a year or a day,<br>We meant to go jogging together the whole of the blooming long way.<br>We slept with one blanket between us the night that we run from the port,<br>There was nothing above us but heaven, yet we took it as jolly good sport.<br>And now he's the boss of a station, and I'm -- well, the bloke that you see;<br>For he had the luck and I hadn't, and now he looks sideways on me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We pegged out a claim on the Dunstan, there used to be gold in them days,<br>There's blokes that still sticks to the digging, but Lord only knows how it pays;<br>For the country as far as I've seen it's as chock full of holes as a sieve<br>With the Chinkies amullocking through it, and yet them coves manage to live.<br>But when Jack took me to the cradle, the place was a wonder to see,<br>We washed out a fortune between us, and now he looks sideways on me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We both fell in love with one woman -- she worked in a pub for a spell;<br>It ain't the best place for an angel, but angels ain't better than Nell;<br>For she was as good as they make 'em and hadn't a notion of ill --<br>It's long years and years since we parted, and seems I'm in love with her still!<br>But Jack was the handsomest fellow -- I saw how the thing had to be;<br>He got the best wife on the diggings, and now he looks sideways on me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I left him, I just couldn't stand it -- I knew it was better to part;<br>I couldn't look on at the wedding with a pain like a knife at my heart!<br>I never said nothing to no one -- we didn't whack out all the gold;<br>I wanted my mate to be happy without my own yarn being told.<br>So I went to the coast by the steamer, and now I'm the bloke that you see;<br>He told me to go to the wharè, it seems he looks sideways on me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's steps coming down to the wharè -- some other poor bloke on the road;<br>'Taint nothing to him to get growled at, the boss ain't a bloke that he knowed.<br>Too dark to make out who's a-coming -- he's crossing the plank at the creek;<br>The years and the whisky are telling, my eyesight begins to get weak.<br>What's the odds? it ain't like me to whimper, and all that's gone by had to be,<br>But the old times came crowding around me to see him look sideways on me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What, Jack! Why, old man, you don't mean it? You didn't right know it was me?<br>Well I'm altered -- it ain't for the better -- never mind, never mind, let it be.<br>O mate, the long years since we parted -- there's a blooming great lump in my throat --<br>I ain't been as glad, mate, I tell you, since the time that we run from the boat.<br>You ain't a bit altered -- you're crying -- why, Jack, don't be sorry for me,<br>I'm that glad that I think I'll go cranky -- and I thought you looked sideways on me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+McKee+Wright">David McKee Wright</a><div class=q>
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My swag ain't too heavy to carry, but then I begin to get old. 
I came through this way to the diggings -- how long will that be ago now?
Thirty years! how the country has alt..."></div>
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