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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=395988" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Average Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His hat looks worn, and his coat-sleeves shine,<br>As I see him step from his ’bus at nine;<br>His boots are pieced and his tie home-made,<br>And his trousers patched where the edge was frayed,<br>And his face is lined by the stress of life<br>Where a man must fight for his bairns an wife.<br>“Who’s that?” I ask, as his face I scan.<br>And the answer comes—“O, an average man.” <br>He has not got notes, he has not got gold,<br>But his homely lunch, in his handbag old;<br>And day by day, as the seasons go,<br>He follows his duty to and fro,<br>And shadows follow him everywhere—<br>Grim want, and worry, and dread are there,<br>For life is not on a gorgeous plan—<br>Far, far from it—to the average man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The floods, the banks, and the curtailed screw,<br>The weekly bills, and the grasping Jew,<br>The servant’s wage and the doctor’s fee,<br>And the needful change by the breezy sea,<br>And the pent-up hours at the desk, which mean<br>A man’s brain changed to a mere machine,<br>And a wife’s tired eyes and the children wan,<br>All press like lead on the average man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the blood is up ’tis a simple thing<br>To charge where the bombs and the bullets sing.<br>But he is worthy a higher place<br>Who fronts his woes with a smiling face,<br>For the noblest strife in our life to-day<br>Is the humdrum fight in the humdrum way.<br>O, wealth and genius may lead the van,<br>But the hero is often an average man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=George+Essex+Evans">George Essex Evans</a><div class=q>
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As I see him step from his ’bus at nine;
His boots are pieced and his tie home-made,
And his trousers patched where the edge was frayed,
And his face is lined by the stress of life
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