Click in the field, then press CTRL+C to copy the HTML code
<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510717" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cain and Abel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Western Version</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Cain and Abel were brothers born.<br>(Koop-la! Come along, cows!)<br>One raised cattle and one raised corn.<br>(Koop-la! Come along! Co-hoe!)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Cain he farmed by the river-side,<br>So he did not care how much it dried.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For he banked, and he sluiced, and he ditched and he led<br>(And the Corn don't care for the Horn)--<br>A-half Euphrates out of her bed<br>To water his dam' Corn!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Abel herded out on the plains<br>Where you have to go by the dams and rains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It happened, after a three-year drought,<br>The wells, and the springs, and the dams gave out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Herd-bulls came to Cain's new house<br>(They wanted water so!--)<br>With the hot red Sun between their brows,<br>Sayin' &quot;Give us water for our pore cows!&quot;<br>But Cain he told 'em--&quot;No!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Cows they came to Cain's big house<br>With the cold white Moon between their brows,<br>Sayin' &quot;Give some water to us pore cows!&quot;<br>But Cain he told 'em--&quot;No?&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The li'l Calves came to Cain's fine house<br>With the Evenin' Star between their brows,<br>Sayin' &quot;'Give us water an' we'll be cows.&quot;<br>But Cain he told 'em--&quot;No!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Herd-bulls led 'em back again,<br>An' Abel went an' said to Cain: --<br>&quot;Oh sell me water, my brother dear,<br>Or there will be no beef this year.&quot;<br>And Cain he answered--&quot;No! &quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Then draw your hatches, my brother true,<br>An' let a little water through.&quot;<br>But Cain he answered: -&quot;No!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;My dams are tight an' my ditches are sound,<br>An' not a drop goes through or round<br>Till she's done her duty by the Corn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I will not sell, an' I will not draw,<br>An' if you breach, I'll have the Law,<br>As sure as you are borne! &quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Abel took his best bull-goad,<br>An' holed a dyke on the Eden road.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He opened her up with foot an' hand,<br>An' let Euphrates loose on the land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He spilled Euphrates out on the plain,<br>So's all his cattle could drink again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Cain he saw what Abel done--<br>But, in those days, there was no Gun!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So he made him a club of a hickory-limb,<br>An' halted Abel an' said to him: --</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I did not sell an' I did not draw,<br>An' now you've breached I'll have the Law.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;You ride abroad in your hat and spurs,<br>Hell-hoofin' over my cucumbers!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;You pray to the Lord to send you luck<br>An' you loose your steers in my garden-truck:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;An' now you're bust, as you ought to be,<br>You can keep on prayin' but not to me!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Abel saw it meant the life;<br>But, in those days, there was no Knife:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So he up with his big bull-goad instead,<br>But--Cain hit first and dropped him dead!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Herd-bulls ran when they smelt the blood,<br>An' horned an' pawed in that Red Mud.<br>The Calves they bawled, and the Steers they milled,<br>Because it was the First Man Killed;<br>An' the whole Herd broke for the Land of Nod, <br>An' Cain was left to be judged by God!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, seein' all he had had to bear,<br>I never could call the Judgment fair!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=510717" data-title="Cain and Abel de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Western Version


Cain and Abel were brothers born.
(Koop-la! Come along, cows!)
One raised cattle and one raised corn.
(Koop-la! Come along! Co-hoe!)

And Cain he farmed by the river-side,
So he did not care how much it dried.

For he banked, and..."></div>
</div>
</div>