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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408764" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Army of the Rear</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I listened through the music and the sounds of revelry,<br>And all the hollow noises of that year of Jubilee;<br>I heard beyond the music and beyond the local cheer,<br>The steady tramp of thousands that were marching in the rear.<br>Tramp! tramp! tramp!<br>They seem to shake the air,<br>Those never-ceasing footsteps of the outcasts in the rear. <br>I heard defiance ringing from the men of rags and dirt,<br>I heard wan woman singing that sad “Song of the Shirt”,<br>And o’er the sounds of menace and moaning low and drear,<br>I heard the steady tramping of their feet along the rear.<br>Tramp! tramp! tramp!<br>Vibrating in the air —<br>They’re swelling fast, those footsteps of the Army of the Rear! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hate the wrongs I read about, I hate the wrongs I see!<br>The tramping of that army sounds as music unto me!<br>A music that is terrible, that frights the anxious ear,<br>Is beaten from the weary feet that tramp along the rear.<br>Tramp! tramp! tramp!<br>In dogged, grim despair —<br>They have a goal, those footsteps of the Army of the Rear! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I looked upon the nobles, with their lineage so old;<br>I looked upon their mansions, on their acres and their gold,<br>I saw their women radiant in jewelled robes appear,<br>And then I joined the army of the outcasts in the rear.<br>Tramp! tramp! tramp!<br>We’ll show what Want can dare,<br>My brothers and my sisters of the Army of the Rear! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I looked upon the mass of poor, in filthy alleys pent;<br>And on rich men’s Edens, that are built on grinding rent;<br>I looked o’er London’s miles of slums — I saw the horrors there,<br>And swore to die a soldier of the Army of the Rear.<br>Tramp! tramp! tramp!<br>I’ve sworn to do and dare,<br>I’ve sworn to die a soldier of the Army of the Rear! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“They’re brutes,” so say the wealthy, “and by steel must be dismayed” —<br>Be brutes among us, nobles, they are brutes that ye have made;<br>We want what God hath given us, we want our portion here,<br>And that is why we’re marching — and we’ll march beyond the rear!<br>Tramp! tramp! tramp!<br>Awake and have a care,<br>Ye proud and haughty spurners of the wretches in the rear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We’ll nurse our wrongs to strengthen us, our hate that it may grow,<br>For, outcast from society, society’s our foe.<br>Beware! who grind out human flesh, for human life is dear!<br>There’s menace in the marching of the Army of the Rear.<br>Tramp! tramp! tramp!<br>There’s danger in despair,<br>There’s danger in the marching of the Army of the Rear! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wealthy care not for our wants, nor for the pangs we feel;<br>Our hands have clutched in vain for bread, and now they clutch for steel!<br>Come, men of rags and hunger, come! There’s work for heroes here!<br>There’s room still in the vanguard of the Army of the Rear!<br>Tramp! tramp! tramp!<br>O men of want and care!<br>There’s glory in the vanguard of the Army of the Rear!</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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And all the hollow noises of that year of Jubilee;
I heard beyond the music and beyond the local cheer,
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