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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510727" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Columns</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Mobile Columns of the Boer War)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Out o' the wilderness, dusty an' dry<br> (Time, an' 'igh time to be trekkin' again!)<br>Oo is it 'eads to the Detail Supply?<br> A sectioin, a pompom, an' six 'undred men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Ere comes the clerk with 'is lantern an' keys<br> (Time, an 'igh time to be trekkin 'again!)<br>&quot; Surplus of everything--draw what you please<br> &quot;For the section, the pompom, an' six 'unrdred men.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;What are our orders an' where do we lay? .<br> (Time, an 'igh time to be trekkin' again!)<br>&quot;You came after dark--you will leave before day,<br> &quot;You section, you pompom, you six' undred men!&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Down the tin street, 'alf awake an 'unfed,<br>'Ark to 'em blessin' the Gen'ral in bed!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now by the church an' the outspan they wind--<br>Over the ridge an' it's all lef' be'ind<br> For the section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soon they will camp as the dawn's growin' grey,<br>Roll up for coffee an' sleep while they may--<br> The section , etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Read their 'ome letters, their papers an' such,<br>For they'll move after dark to astonish the Dutch<br> With a section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Untin' for shade as the long hours pass--<br>Blankets on rifles or burrows in grass,<br> Lies the section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dossin' or beatin' a shirt in the sun,<br>Watching chameleons or cleanin' a gun,<br> Waits the section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With nothin' but stillness as far as you please,<br>An' the silly mirage stringin' islands an' seas<br> Round the section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So they strips off their hide an' they grills in their bones,<br>Till the shadows crawl out from beneath the pore stones<br> Toward the section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An' the Mauser-bird stops an' the jacals begin<br>A the 'orse-guard comes up and the Gunners 'ook in<br> As a 'int the pompom an' six 'undred men . . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Off through the dark with the stars to rely on---<br>(Alpha Centauri an' somethin' Orion)<br> Moves the section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Same bloomin' 'ole which the ant-bear 'as broke,<br>Same bloomin' stumble an' same bloomin' joke<br> Down the section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Same &quot;which is right?&quot; where the cart-tracks divide,<br>Same &quot;give it up&quot; from the same clever guide<br> To the section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Same tumble-down on the same 'idden farm,<br>Same white-eyed Kaffir 'oo gives the alarm--<br> Of the section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Same shootin' wild at the end o' the night,<br>Same flyin'-tackle an' same messy fight,<br> By the section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Same ugly 'iccup an' same 'orrid squeal,<br>When it's too dark to see an' it's too late to feel<br> In the section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Same batch of prisoners, 'airy an' still,<br>Watchin' their comrades bolt over the 'ill<br> From the section, etc.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Same chilly glare in the eye of the sun<br>As 'e gets up displeasured to see what was done<br> By the section, etc.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Same splash o' pink on the stoep or the kraal,<br>An' the same quiet face which 'as finished with all<br> In the section, the pompom, an' six 'undred men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out o' the wilderness, dusty an' dry<br>(Time, an' 'igh time to be trekkin' again!)<br>' Oo is it 'eads to the Detail Supply ?<br> A section, a pompom, an 'six' 'undred men.</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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Out o' the wilderness, dusty an' dry
 (Time, an' 'igh time to be trekkin' again!)
Oo is it 'eads to the Detail Supply?
 A sectioin, a pompom, an' six 'undred men.

'Ere comes the clerk with 'is lantern an' keys
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