<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408778" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Black Bordered Letter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An’ SO ’e’s dead in London,<br>An’ answered to the call,<br>An’ trotted through the Long Street,<br>With ’earse an’ plumes an’ all?<br>We was village boys an’ brothers—<br>We was warm as we could be,<br>In the milk-walk an’ the fried fish,<br>Up in London, ’im an’ me. <br>We was warm,<br>We was warm,<br>As we ’ad always been;<br>We never ’ad a dry word<br>Till she come between. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lived round Windsor Terrace,<br>An’ ’im across the wye,<br>An’ when I sailed a emigrant<br>We never said good-bye!<br>He wos better than a brother—<br>Wot you Bushmen call a mate.<br>(Did he reach the rylwye stytion,<br>As they told me, just too late!) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We was warm,<br>We was warm,<br>As pals was ever seen;<br>We never ’ad a dry word<br>Till she come between. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I meant to go back ’ome again,<br>I meant to write to-night;<br>I meant to write by every mail,<br>But I thought ’e oughter write.<br>An’ now ’e’s left North London—<br>For a better place, perhaps—<br>She’s flauntin’ in ’er widder weeds,<br>With eyes on other chaps. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We was warm,<br>We was warm,<br>As we ’ad always been;<br>We never ’ad a dry word<br>Till she come between. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! tongues is bad in wimmin,<br>When wimmin’s tongues is bad!<br>For they’ll part men an’ brothers<br>World oceans wide, my lad!<br>There was seven years between us,<br>An’ fifteen thousand mile,<br>An’ now there’s death an’ sorrer<br>For ever an’ awhile. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We was warm,<br>We was warm,<br>As two was ever seen;<br>We never ’ad a dry word<br>Till she come between.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408778" data-title="The Black Bordered Letter de Henry Lawson" data-description="An’ SO ’e’s dead in London, An’ answered to the call, An’ trotted through the Long Street, With ’earse an’ plumes an’ all? We was village boys an’ brothers— We was warm as we could be, In the milk-walk an’ the fried fish, Up ..."></div> </div> </div>

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