<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510777" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Half-Ballad of Waterval</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Non-commissioned Officers in Charge of Prisoners)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When by the labor of my 'ands<br>I've 'elped to pack a transport tight <br>With prisoners for foreign lands, <br>I ain't transported with delight.<br>I know it's only just an' right,<br>But yet it somehow sickens me,<br>For I 'ave learned at Waterval<br>The meanin' of captivity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be'ind the pegged barb-wire strands,<br>Beneath the tall electric light,<br>We used to walk in bare-'ead bands,<br>Explainin' 'ow we lost our fight;<br>An' that is what they'll do to-night<br>Upon the steamer out at sea,<br>If I 'ave learned at Waterval<br>The meanin' of captivity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They'll never know the shame that brands--<br>Black shame no livin' down makes white--<br>The mockin' from the sentry-stands,<br>The women's laugh, the gaoler's spite.<br>We are too bloomin'-much polite,<br>But that is 'ow I'd 'ave us be . . .<br>Since I 'ave learned at Waterval<br>The meanin' of captivity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They'll get those draggin' days all right,<br>Spent as a foreigner commands,<br>An' 'orrors of the locked-up night,<br>With 'Ell's own thinkin' on their 'ands.<br>I'd give the gold o' twenty Rands<br>(If it was mine) to set 'em free<br>For I 'ave learned at Waterval<br>The meanin' of captivity!</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=510777" data-title="Half-Ballad of Waterval de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="(Non-commissioned Officers in Charge of Prisoners) When by the labor of my 'ands I've 'elped to pack a transport tight With prisoners for foreign lands, I ain't transported with delight. I know it's only just an' right, But yet it somehow sick..."></div> </div> </div>

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