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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409011" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Who’ll Wear the Beaten Colours?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who’ll wear the beaten colours—and cheer the beaten men?<br>Who’ll wear the beaten colours, till our time comes again?<br>Where sullen crowds are densest, and fickle as the sea,<br>Who’ll wear the beaten colours, and wear them home with me?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We closed the bars and gambling dens and voted straight and clean,<br>Our women walked while motor cars were whirling round the scene,<br>The Potts Point Vote was one for Greed and Ease and Luxury<br>With all to hold, and coward gold, and beaten folk are we.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who’ll wear the beaten colours, with hands and pockets clean?<br>(I wore the beaten colours since I was seventeen)<br>I wore them up, and wore them down, Outback and across the sea—<br>Who’ll wear the beaten colours, and wear them home with me?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We wore them back from Ladysmith to where the peace was signed,<br>And wore them through the London streets where Jingoes howled behind.<br>We wore them to the Queen’s Hall, while England yelled “Pro-Boers!”<br>And sat them over victory while London banged the doors.1</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We wore them from Port Arthur round till all sunk in the sea—<br>(Who’ll wear the white man’s colours, and wear them home with me?)<br>I’ve worn them through with gentlemen, with work-slaves and alone—<br>Who’ll wear the beaten colours, boys, and wear them on his own?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There’s one would look with startled eyes and shrink while I caressed,<br>Came I not with the colours of the conquered on my breast.<br>And twenty thousand Bushmen would stand with hands behind<br>And scorn in all their faces for the coward of his kind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who’ll wear the beaten colours and raise the voice they drowned—<br>It may be when we march again, they’ll bear some other sound—<br>Who’ll pin the beaten colours on and drive the beaten pen—<br>It may be other steel and ink when we march out again.</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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Who’ll wear the beaten colours, till our time comes again?
Where sullen crowds are densest, and fickle as the sea,
Who’ll wear the beaten colours, and wear them home with me?

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