<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508310" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ernie Pyle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wish I had a simple style<br> In writing verse,<br>As in his prose had Ernie Pyle,<br> So true and terse;<br>Springing so forthright from the heart<br> With guileless art.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wish I could put back a dram<br> As Ernie could;<br>I wish that I could cuss and damn<br> As soldier should;<br>And fain with every verse would I<br> Ernie outvie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alas! I cannot claim his high<br> Humanity;<br>Nor emulate his pungent, dry<br> Profanity;<br>Nor share his love of common folk<br> Who bear life's yolk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh Ernie, who on earth I knew<br> In war and wine,<br>Though frail of fame, in soul how you<br> Were pure and fine!<br>I'm proud that once when we were plastered<br> You called me 'bastard.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</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=508310" data-title="Ernie Pyle de Robert William Service" data-description="I wish I had a simple style In writing verse, As in his prose had Ernie Pyle, So true and terse; Springing so forthright from the heart With guileless art. I wish I could put back a dram As Ernie could; I wish that I could cuss and damn As s..."></div> </div> </div>

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