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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507061" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>1805</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At Viscount Nelson’s lavish funeral,<br>While the mob milled and yelled about St Paul’s,<br>A General chatted with an Admiral:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“One of your colleagues, Sir, remarked today<br>That Nelson’s exit, though to be lamented,<br>Falls not inopportunely, in it’s way”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“He was a thorn in our flesh’, came the reply-<br>‘The mot bird-witted, unaccountable,<br>Odd little runt that ever I did spy”.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“One arm, one peeper, vain as Pretty Poll,<br>A meddler too, in foreign politics<br>And gave his heart in pawn to a plain moll.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“He would dare lecture us Sea Lords, and then<br>Would treat his ratings as though men of honour<br>And play leap-frog with his midshipmen!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We tried to box him down, but up he popped,<br>And when he banged Napoleon on the Nile<br>Became too much the hero to be dropped.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“You’ve heard that Copenhagen ‘blind eye’ story?<br>We’d tied him to Nurse Parker’s apron- strings-<br>By G-d, he snipped them through and snatched the glory!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Yet”, cried the General, ‘sic-and-twenty sail<br>Captured or sunk by him off Trafalgar-<br>That writes a handsome finis to the tale”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Handsome enough. The seas are England’s now.<br>That fellow’s foibles need no longer plague us<br>He died most creditably, I’ll allow.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“And Sir, the secret of his victories?”<br>“By his unServicelike, familiar ways, Sir,<br>He made the whole Fleet love him, damn his eyes!”</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Graves">Robert Graves</a><div class=q>
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