<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416004" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Crimean War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At the announcement that Britain was to declare War, Kossuth<br>the Hungarian Patriot and orator, declared in an address in <br>England, that the British Lion was a sea dog but helpless on land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the British Lion offered aid to the turk,<br>Round many lips a sneer of serious doubt did lurk,<br>They said he was at home on sea, but when on land <br>He would be as a ship wrecked upon the strand ;<br>Or like some huge, ungainly crockadile [sic]<br>Upon the marshy banks of sluggish Nile, <br>Who could move gayly on the deep<br>But on dry land could scarcely creep.<br>But up the Alma heights he rushed, like grayhounds after hare, <br>And in a moment by the throat he seized the Russian Bear,<br>Which begged so hard for mercy, his life he did it spare, <br>And closely now it is confined within its native lair;<br>For its strong fortress great Sebastapool,<br>Was forced to submit to Great Britain's rule.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</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=416004" data-title="Crimean War de James McIntyre" data-description="At the announcement that Britain was to declare War, Kossuth the Hungarian Patriot and orator, declared in an address in England, that the British Lion was a sea dog but helpless on land. When the British Lion offered aid to the turk, Round many..."></div> </div> </div>

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