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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508510" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Mate</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've been sittin' starin', starin' at 'is muddy pair of boots,<br> And tryin' to convince meself it's 'im.<br>(Look out there, lad! That sniper -- 'e's a dysey when 'e shoots;<br> 'E'll be layin' of you out the same as Jim.)<br>Jim as lies there in the dug-out wiv 'is blanket round 'is 'ead,<br> To keep 'is brains from mixin' wiv the mud;<br>And 'is face as white as putty, and 'is overcoat all red,<br> Like 'e's spilt a bloomin' paint-pot -- but it's blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I'm tryin' to remember of a time we wasn't pals.<br> 'Ow often we've played 'ookey, 'im and me;<br>And sometimes it was music-'alls, and sometimes it was gals,<br> And even there we 'ad no disagree.<br>For when 'e copped Mariar Jones, the one I liked the best,<br> I shook 'is 'and and loaned 'im 'arf a quid;<br>I saw 'im through the parson's job, I 'elped 'im make 'is nest,<br> I even stood god-farther to the kid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So when the war broke out, sez 'e: &quot;Well, wot abaht it, Joe?&quot;<br> &quot;Well, wot abaht it, lad?&quot; sez I to 'im.<br>'Is missis made a awful fuss, but 'e was mad to go,<br> ('E always was 'igh-sperrited was Jim).<br>Well, none of it's been 'eaven, and the most of it's been 'ell,<br> But we've shared our baccy, and we've 'alved our bread.<br>We'd all the luck at Wipers, and we shaved through Noove Chapelle,<br> And . . . that snipin' barstard gits 'im on the 'ead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now wot I wants to know is, why it wasn't me was took?<br> I've only got meself, 'e stands for three.<br>I'm plainer than a louse, while 'e was 'andsome as a dook;<br> 'E always WAS a better man than me.<br>'E was goin' 'ome next Toosday; 'e was 'appy as a lark,<br> And 'e'd just received a letter from 'is kid;<br>And 'e struck a match to show me, as we stood there in the dark,<br> When . . . that bleedin' bullet got 'im on the lid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'E was killed so awful sudden that 'e 'adn't time to die.<br> 'E sorto jumped, and came down wiv a thud.<br>Them corpsy-lookin' star-shells kept a-streamin' in the sky,<br> And there 'e lay like nothin' in the mud.<br>And there 'e lay so quiet wiv no mansard to 'is 'ead,<br> And I'm sick, and blamed if I can understand:<br>The pots of 'alf and 'alf we've 'ad, and ZIP! like that -- 'e's dead,<br> Wiv the letter of 'is nipper in 'is 'and.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's some as fights for freedom and there's some as fights for fun,<br> But me, my lad, I fights for bleedin' 'ate.<br>You can blame the war and blast it, but I 'opes it won't be done<br> Till I gets the bloomin' blood-price for me mate.<br>It'll take a bit o' bayonet to level up for Jim;<br> Then if I'm spared I think I'll 'ave a bid,<br>Wiv 'er that was Mariar Jones to take the place of 'im,<br> To sorter be a farther to 'is kid.</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>
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(Look out there, lad! That sniper -- 'e's a dysey when 'e shoots;
 'E'll be layin' of you out the same as Jim.)
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