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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510721" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Chant-Pagan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ENGLISH IRREGULAR, DISCHARGED</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Me that 'ave been what I've been --<br>Me that 'ave gone where I've gone --<br>Me that 'ave seen what I've seen --<br>'Ow can I ever take on<br>With awful old England again,<br>An' 'ouses both sides of the street,<br>And 'edges two sides of the lane,<br>And the parson an' gentry between,<br>An' touchin' my 'at when we meet --<br>Me that 'ave been what I've been?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me that 'ave watched 'arf a world<br>'Eave up all shiny with dew,<br>Kopje on kop to the sun,<br>An' as soon as the mist let 'em through<br>Our 'elios winkin' like fun --<br>Three sides of a ninety-mile square,<br>Over valleys as big as a shire --<br>&quot;Are ye there? Are ye there? Are ye there?&quot;<br>An' then the blind drum of our fire . . .<br>An' I'm rollin' 'is lawns for the Squire,<br>Me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me htat 'ave rode through the dark<br>Forty mile, often, on end,<br>Along the Ma'ollisberg Range,<br>With only the stars for my mark<br>An' only the night for my friend,<br>An' things runnin' off as you pass,<br>An' things jumpin' up in the grass,<br>An' the silence, the shine an' the size<br>Of the 'igh, unexpressible skies --<br>I am takin' some letters almost<br>As much as a mile to the post,<br>An' &quot;mind you come back with the change!&quot;<br>Me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me that saw Barberton took<br>When we dropped through the clouds on their 'ead,<br>An' they 'ove the guns over and fled --<br>Me that was through Di'mond I'll,<br>An' Pieters an' Springs an' Belfast --<br>From Dundee to Vereeniging all --<br>Me that stuck out to the last<br>(An' five bloomin' bars on my chest) --<br>I am doin' my Sunday-school best,<br>By the 'elp of the Squire an' 'is wife<br>(Not to mention the 'ousemaid an' cook),<br>To come in an' 'ands up an' be still,<br>An' honestly work for my bread,<br>My livin' in that state of life<br>To which it shall please God to call<br>Me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Me that 'ave followed my trade<br>In the place where the Lightnin's are made;<br>&quot;Twixt the Rains and the Sun and the Moon --<br>Me that lay down an' got up<br>Three years with the sky for my roof --<br>That 'ave ridden my 'unger an' thirst<br>Six thousand raw mile on the hoof,<br>With the Vaal and the Orange for cup,<br>An' the Brandwater Basin for dish, --<br>Oh! it's 'ard to be'ave as they wish<br>(Too 'ard, an' a little too soon),<br>I'll 'ave to think over it first --<br>Me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will arise an' get 'ence --<br>I will trek South and make sure<br>If it's only my fancy or not<br>That the sunshine of England is pale,<br>And the breezes of England are stale,<br>An' there's something' gone small with the lot.<br>For I know of a sun an' a wind,<br>An' some plains and a mountain be'ind,<br>An' some graves by a barb-wire fence,<br>An' a Dutchman I've fought 'oo might give<br>Me a job where I ever inclined<br>To look in an' offsaddle an' live<br>Where there's neither a road nor a tree --<br>But only my Maker an' me,<br>An I think it will kill me or cure,<br>So I think I will go there an' see.</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>
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Me that 'ave been what I've been --
Me that 'ave gone where I've gone --
Me that 'ave seen what I've seen --
'Ow can I ever take on
With awful old England again,
An' 'ouses both sides of the street,
And 'edges two s..."></div>
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