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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393284" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ballad of Army Pay</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In general, if you want a man to do a dangerous </div><div style="margin:10px 0">job : — <br>Say, swim the Channel, climb St. Paul's, or break </div><div style="margin:10px 0">into and rob <br>The Bank of England, why, you find his wages </div><div style="margin:10px 0">must be higher <br>Than if you merely wanted him to Fight the kitchen </div><div style="margin:10px 0">fire. <br>But in the British Army, it's just the other </div><div style="margin:10px 0">way. <br>And the maximum of danger means the minimum </div><div style="margin:10px 0">of pay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You put some men inside a trench, and call them </div><div style="margin:10px 0">infantrie, <br>And make them face ten kinds of hell, and face it </div><div style="margin:10px 0">cheerfully ; <br>And hve in holes Uke rats, with other rats, and </div><div style="margin:10px 0">hce, and toads, <br>And in their leisure time, assist the R.E.'s with </div><div style="margin:10px 0">their loads. <br>Then, when they've done it all, you give 'em each </div><div style="margin:10px 0">a bob a day ! <br>For the maximum of danger means the minimum </div><div style="margin:10px 0">of pay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">40 </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">We won't run down the A.S.C., nor yet the </div><div style="margin:10px 0">R.T.O. <br>They ration and direct us on the way we've got </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to go. <br>They're very useful people, and it's pretty plain </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to see <br>We couldn't do without 'em, nor yet the </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A.P.C. <br>But comparing risks and wages, — I think they all </div><div style="margin:10px 0">will say <br>That the maximum of danger means the minimum </div><div style="margin:10px 0">of pay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are men who make munitions — and seventy <br>bob a week ; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They never see a lousy trench nor hear a big shell <br>shriek ; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And others sing about the war at high-class music- <br>halls </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Getting heaps and heaps of money and encores <br>from the stalls. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They ' keep the home fires burning ' and bright <br>by night and day. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the maximum of danger means the minimum <br>of pay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wonder if it's harder to make big shells at a </div><div style="margin:10px 0">bench, <br>Than to face the screaming beggars when they're </div><div style="margin:10px 0">crumping up a trench ; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">41 </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wonder if it's harder to sing in mellow tones </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of danger, than to face it — say, in a wood like <br>Trone's ; * </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is discipline skilled labour, or something children <br>play ? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Should the maximum of danger mean the mini- <br>mum of pay ?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frederick+William+Harvey">Frederick William Harvey</a><div class=q>
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