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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408572" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Bill and Jim Fall Out</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bill and Jim are mates no longer—they would scorn the name of mate—<br>Those two bushmen hate each other with a soul-consuming hate;<br>Yet erstwhile they were as brothers should be (tho’ they never will):<br>Ne’er were mates to one another half so true as Jim and Bill. <br>Bill was one of those who have to argue every day or die—<br>Though, of course, he swore ’twas Jim who always itched to argufy.<br>They would, on most abstract subjects, contradict each other flat<br>And at times in lurid language—they were mates in spite of that. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bill believed the Bible story re the origin of him—<br>He was sober, he was steady, he was orthodox; while Jim,<br>Who, we grieve to state, was always getting into drunken scrapes,<br>Held that man degenerated from degenerated apes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bill was British to the backbone, he was loyal through and through;<br>Jim declared that Blucher’s Prussians won the fight at Waterloo,<br>And he hoped the coloured races would in time wipe out the white—<br>And it rather strained their mateship, but it didn’t burst it quite. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They battled round in Maoriland—they saw it through and through—<br>And argued on the rata, what it was and how it grew;<br>Bill believed the vine grew downward, Jim declared that it grow up—<br>Yet they always shared their fortunes to the final bite and sup. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Night after night they argued how the kangaroo was born,<br>And each one held the other’s stupid theories in scorn,<br>Bill believed it was ‘born inside,’ Jim declared it was born out—<br>Each as to his own opinions never had the slightest doubt. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They left the earth to argue and they went among the stars,<br>Re conditions atmospheric, Bill believed ‘the hair of Mars<br>‘Was too thin for human bein’s to exist in mortal states.’<br>Jim declared it was too thick, if anythin—yet they were mates </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bill for Freetrade—Jim, Protection—argued as to which was best<br>For the welfare of the workers—and their mateship stood the test!<br>They argued over what they meant and didn’t mean at all,<br>And what they said and didn’t—and were mates in spite of all. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Till one night the two together tried to light a fire in camp,<br>When they had a leaky billy and the wood was scarce and damp.<br>And . . . No matter: let the moral be distinctly understood:<br>One alone should tend the fire, while the other brings the wood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Lawson">Henry Lawson</a><div class=q>
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