<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=415934" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To a Billy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">OLD BILLY—battered, brown and black<br> With many days of camping,<br>Companion of the bulging sack,<br> And friend in all our tramping:<br>How often on the Friday night—<br> Your cubic measure testing—<br>With jam and tea we stuffed you tight<br> Before we started nesting! <br>How often, in the moonlight pale,<br> Through gums and gullies toiling,<br>We’ve been the first the hill to scale,<br> The first to watch you boiling;<br>When at the lane the tent was spread<br> The silver wattle under,<br>And early shafts of rosy red<br> Cleft sea-born mists asunder! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so, old Billy, you recall<br> A host of sun-burnt faces,<br>And bring us back again to all<br> The best of camping places.<br>True flavour of the bush you bear,<br> Of camp and its surrounding,<br>Of freedom and of open air,<br> Of healthy life abounding. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You bring us more—with those we love<br> We watched you boil and bubble,<br>And in the sunny skies above<br> Forgot each schoolboy trouble<br>So not without a kindly glance<br> We eye you in the study,<br>Although you’ve met with some mischance,<br> Although you’re black and muddy!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Lister+Cuthbertson">James Lister Cuthbertson</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=415934" data-title="To a Billy de James Lister Cuthbertson" data-description="OLD BILLY—battered, brown and black With many days of camping, Companion of the bulging sack, And friend in all our tramping: How often on the Friday night— Your cubic measure testing— With jam and tea we stuffed you tight Before we star..."></div> </div> </div>

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