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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421506" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Merchandise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">MERCHANDISE! Merchandise! Tortoiseshell, spices,<br>Carpets and Indigo sent o’er the highseas;<br>Mothero’Pearl from the Solomon Isles<br>Brought by a brigantine ten thousand miles. <br>Rubber from Zanzibar, tea from NangPo,<br>Copra from Haiti, and wine from Bordeaux;<br>Ships, with topgallants and royals unfurled,<br>Are bringing in freights from the ends of the world </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Crazy old windjammers, manned by Malays,<br>With ratridden bulkheads and creaking old stays,<br>Reeking of bilge and of paint and of pitch<br>That’s how these oceangirt islands grew rich: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And tramps, heavy laden, and liners untold<br>Will lease a new life to a nation grown old.<br>Merchandise! Merchandise! England was made<br>By her Men and her Ships and her OVERSEAS TRADE. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Widen your harbours, your docks and your quays,<br>Hazard your wares on the seven wide seas,<br>Run out your railways and hew out your coal,<br>For only by trade can a country keep whole. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Feed up your furnaces, fashion your steel,<br>Stick to your bargains and pay on the deal;<br>Rich is your birthright, and well you’ll be paid.<br>If you keep in good faith with your Overseas Trade. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Learn up geography, work out your sums,<br>Build up your commerce, and pull down your slums;<br>Sail on a Plimsoll that marks a full hold:<br>Your Overseas Trade means a harvest of gold. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bring in the palmoil and pepper you’ve bought,<br>But send out ten times the amount you import:<br>Trade your inventions, your labour and sweat:<br>Your Overseas Traffic will keep ye from debt. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hark to the song of the shuttle and loom,<br>Keep up your commerce or crawl to your tomb<br>Study new methods and open new lines,<br>Quicken your factories, foundries and mines, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Think of what Drake did, and Raleigh and Howe<br>And waste not their labours by slacking it now:<br>Work is life’s currency earn what you’re worth,<br>And send out your ships to the ends of the earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deepbosomed mothers with widefashioned hips<br>Will bear ye good sons for the building of ships<br>Good sons for your ships and good ships for your trade<br>That’s how the Peace of the World will be made! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So send out your strong to the forests untrod,<br>Work for yourselves and your neighbours and<br> Keep this good England the home of the free,<br> With Merchandise, Men and good Ships on the<br> Merchandise! Merchandise! Good honest Merchandise!<br>Merchandise, Men and Good Ships on the Sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Milton+Hayes">John Milton Hayes</a><div class=q>
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Carpets and Indigo sent o’er the highseas;
Mothero’Pearl from the Solomon Isles
Brought by a brigantine ten thousand miles. 
Rubber from Zanzibar, tea from NangPo,
Copra from Haiti, and wine fro..."></div>
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