<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367413" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Friends</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So comfortable together, <br>They now marched side-by-side, <br>Though their hides were tough as leather, <br>They strode along with pride...<br>Their fiercesome tusks like scimitars, <br>Their eyes as dark as night, <br>With tiny twinkling nestled stars<br>Inside them, shining bright...<br>Their feet as tough as army boots<br>Sent trembling through the ground...<br>Like old friends, as if in cahoots, <br>Just swaggering around...<br>Defiant against any foe! <br>Just bring it! If you dare! <br>They'd fight them all, give blow for blow, <br>As if they didn't care...<br>The other creatures gave them space...<br>Why make the giants mad? <br>Why anger them, so they give chase...<br>And lose the life you had? <br>And so, the old friends swaggered by, <br>Like playground bullies do...<br>Bull elephants! Don't ask them why, <br>If you know what's good for you...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Old Friends'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Stephen Gayford poems can be viewed here: <br>denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367413" data-title="Old Friends de Denis Martindale" data-description="So comfortable together, They now marched side-by-side, Though their hides were tough as leather, They strode along with pride... Their fiercesome tusks like scimitars, Their eyes as dark as night, With tiny twinkling nestled stars Inside the..."></div> </div> </div>

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