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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384999" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Why Washington Retreated</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1775</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Congress to George Washington:<br>"To set this country free,<br>You'll have to whip the Britishers<br>And chase them o'er the sea."<br>"Oh, very well," said Washington,<br>"I'll do the best I can.<br>I'll slam and bang those Britishers<br>And whip them to a man."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">1777</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Congress to George Washington:<br>"The people all complain;<br>Why don't you fight? You but retreat<br>And then retreat again."<br>"That can't be helped," said Washington,<br>"As you will quite agree<br>When you see how the novelists<br>Have mixed up things for me."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Congress to George Washington:<br>"Pray make your meaning clear."<br>Said Washington: "Why, certainly --<br>But pray excuse this tear.<br>Of course we know," said Washington,<br>"The object of this war --<br>It is to furnish novelists<br>With patriotic lore."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Congress to George Washington:<br>"Yes! yes! but pray proceed."<br>Said Washington: "My part in it<br>Is difficult indeed,<br>For every hero in the books<br>Must sometime meet with me,<br>And every sweet-faced heroine<br>I must kiss gallantly."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Congress to George Washington:<br>"But why must you retreat?"<br>Said Washington: "One moment, please,<br>My story to complete.<br>These hero-folk are scattered through<br>The whole United States;<br>At every little country town<br>A man or maiden waits."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To Congress said George Washington:<br>"At Harlem I must be<br>On such a day to chat with one,<br>And then I'll have to flee<br>With haste to Jersey, there to meet<br>Another. Here's a list<br>Of sixty-seven heroes, and<br>There may be some I've missed."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To Congress said George Washington:<br>"Since I must meet them all<br>(And if I don't you know how flat<br>The novels all will fall),<br>I cannot take much time to fight,<br>I must be on the run,<br>Or some historic novelist<br>Will surely be undone."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Congress to George Washington:<br>"You are a noble man.<br>Your thoughtfulness is notable,<br>And we approve your plan;<br>A battle won pads very well<br>A novel that is thin,<br>But it is better to retreat<br>Than miss one man and win."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said Congress to George Washington:<br>"Kiss every pretty maid,<br>But do it in a courtly way<br>And in a manner staid --<br>And some day when your sword is sheathed<br>And all our banners furled,<br>A crop of novels will spring up<br>That shall appal the world."</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Submitted by John Martin</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ellis+Parker+Butler">Ellis Parker Butler</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=384999" data-title="Why Washington Retreated de Ellis Parker Butler" data-description="1775 Said Congress to George Washington: "To set this country free, You'll have to whip the Britishers And chase them o'er the sea." "Oh, very well," said Washington, "I'll do the best I can. I'll slam and bang those Brit..."></div> </div> </div>
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