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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508874" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Three Tommies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That Barret, the painter of pictures, what feeling for color he had!<br>And Fanning, the maker of music, such melodies mirthful and mad!<br>And Harley, the writer of stories, so whimsical, tender and glad!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To hark to their talk in the trenches, high heart unfolding to heart,<br>Of the day when the war would be over, and each would be true to his part,<br>Upbuilding a Palace of Beauty to the wonder and glory of Art . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yon's Barret, the painter of pictures, yon carcass that rots on the wire;<br>His hand with its sensitive cunning is crisped to a cinder with fire;<br>His eyes with their magical vision are bubbles of glutinous mire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor Fanning! He sought to discover the symphonic note of a shell;<br>There are bits of him broken and bloody, to show you the place where he fell;<br>I've reason to fear on his exquisite ear the rats have been banqueting well.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And speaking of Harley, the writer, I fancy I looked on him last,<br>Sprawling and staring and writhing in the roar of the battle blast;<br>Then a mad gun-team crashed over, and scattered his brains as it passed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, Harley and Fanning and Barret, they were bloody good mates o' mine;<br>Their bodies are empty bottles; Death has guzzled the wine;<br>What's left of them's filth and corruption. . . . Where is the Fire Divine?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll tell you. . . . At night in the trenches, as I watch and I do my part,<br>Three radiant spirits I'm seeing, high heart revealing to heart,<br>And they're building a peerless palace to the splendor and triumph of Art.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, alas! for the fame of Barret, the glory he might have trailed!<br>And alas! for the name of Fanning, a star that beaconed and paled,<br>Poor Harley, obscure and forgotten. . . . Well, who shall say that they failed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, each did a Something Grander than ever he dreamed to do;<br>And as for the work unfinished, all will be paid their due;<br>The broken ends will be fitted, the balance struck will be true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So painters, and players, and penmen, I tell you: Do as you please;<br>Let your fame outleap on the trumpets, you'll never rise up to these --<br>To three grim and gory Tommies, down, down on your bended knees!</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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