<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409015" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Will Yer Write It Down for Me?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the parlour of the shanty where the lives have all gone wrong,<br>When a singer or reciter gives a story or a song,<br>Where the poet’s heart is speaking to their hearts in every line,<br>Till the hardest curse and blubber at the thoughts of Auld Lang Syne;<br>Then a boozer lurches forward with an oath for all disguise—<br>Prayers and curses in his soul, and tears and liquor in his eyes—<br>Grasps the singer or reciter with a death-grip by the hand:<br>‘That’s the truth, bloke! Sling it at ’em! Oh! Gorbli’me, that was grand!<br>‘Don’t mind me; I’ve got ’em. You know! What’s yer name, bloke! Don’t yer see?<br>‘Who’s the bloke what wrote the po’try? Will yer write it down fer me?’ </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the backblocks’ bard goes through it, ever seeking as he goes<br>For the line of least resistance to the hearts of men he knows;<br>And he tracks their hearts in mateship, and he tracks them out alone—<br>Seeking for the power to sway them, till he finds it in his own,<br>Feels what they feel, loves what they love, learns to hate what they condemn,<br>Takes his pen in tears and triumph, and he writes it down for them.</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=409015" data-title="Will Yer Write It Down for Me? de Henry Lawson" data-description="In the parlour of the shanty where the lives have all gone wrong, When a singer or reciter gives a story or a song, Where the poet’s heart is speaking to their hearts in every line, Till the hardest curse and blubber at the thoughts of Auld Lang..."></div> </div> </div>

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