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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>England In Egypt</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FROM the dusty jaded sunlight of the careless Cairo streets,<br>Through the open bedroom window where the pale blue held the<br>palms,<br>There came a sound of music, thrilling cries and rattling beats,<br>That startled me from slumber with a shock of sweet alarms<br>For beneath this rainless heaven with this music in my ears<br>I was born, and all my boyhood with its joy was glorified,<br>And for me the ranging Red-coats hold a passion of bright tears,<br>And the glancing of the bayonets lights a hell of savage pride.<br>So I leaped and ran, and looked,<br>And I stood, and listened there,<br>Till I heard the fifes and drums,<br>Till I heard the fifes and drums,<br>The fifes and drums of England<br>Thrilling all the alien air! —<br>And 'England, England, England,'<br>I heard the wild fifes cry,<br>'We are here to rob for England,<br>And to throttle liberty!'<br>And 'England, England, England,'<br>I heard the fierce drums roar,<br>'We are tools for pious swindlers<br>And brute bullies evermore!'<br>And the silent Arabs crowded, half-defiant, half-dismayed.<br>And the jaunty fifers fifing flung their challenge to the breeze,<br>And the drummers kneed their drums up as the reckless drumsticks<br>played,<br>And the Tommies all came trooping, tripping, slouching at their ease.<br>Ah Christ, the love I bore them for their brave hearts and strong<br>Ah! Christ, the hate that smote me for their stupid dull conceits —<br>I know not which was greater, as I watched their conquering bands<br>In the dusty jaded sunlight of the sullen Cairo streets.<br>And my dream of love and hate<br>Surged, and broke, and gathered there,<br>As I heard the fifes and drums,<br>As I heard the fifes and drums,<br>The fifes and drums of England<br>Thrilling all the alien air! —<br>And 'Tommy, Tommy, Tommy,'<br>I heard the wild fifes cry,<br>'Will you never know the England<br>For which men, not fools, should die?'<br>And 'Tommy, Tommy, Tommy,'<br>I heard the fierce drums roar,<br>'Will you always be a cut-throat<br>And a slave for evermore?'<br>No, I shall never see it with these weary death-dim eyes,<br>The hour of Retribution, the hour of Fate's desire,<br>When before the outraged millions, as at last — at last they rise,<br>The rogues and thieves of England are as stubble to the fire!<br>When the gentlemen of England, eaten out with lust and sin,<br>When the shop-keepers of England, sick with godly greed as well,<br>Face the Red-coats and the Red-shirts, as the steel-ring closes in<br>And hurls them, howling madly, down the precipice of hell!<br>But O, I knew, that hour,<br>Standing sick and dying there,<br>As I heard the fifes and drums,<br>As I heard the fifes and drums,<br>The fifes and drums of England<br>Thrilling all the alien air!<br>And 'Tommy, Tommy, Tommy,'<br>I heard the wild fifes cry,<br>'It is time to cease your fooling;<br>It is time to do or die!'<br>And 'Johnnie, Johnnie, Johnnie,'<br>I heard the fierce drums roar,<br>'It is time to break your fetters<br>And be free for evermore!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+William+Lauderdale+Adams">Francis William Lauderdale Adams</a><div class=q>
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