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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510887" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Soldier An' Sailor Too</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the ~Crocodile~,<br>I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars' style.<br>'E was scrapin' the paint from off of 'er plates,<br> an' I sez to 'im, ''Oo are you?'<br>Sez 'e, 'I'm a Jolly -- 'Er Majesty's Jolly -- soldier an' sailor too!'<br>Now 'is work begins by Gawd knows when, and 'is work is never through;<br>'E isn't one o' the reg'lar Line, nor 'e isn't one of the crew.<br>'E's a kind of a giddy harumfrodite -- soldier an' sailor too!<br> <br>An' after I met 'im all over the world, a-doin' all kinds of things,<br>Like landin' 'isself with a Gatlin' gun to talk to them 'eathen kings;<br>'E sleeps in an 'ammick instead of a cot,<br> an' 'e drills with the deck on a slew,<br>An' 'e sweats like a Jolly -- 'Er Majesty's Jolly -- soldier an' sailor too!<br>For there isn't a job on the top o' the earth the beggar don't know, nor do --<br>You can leave 'im at night on a bald man's 'ead, to paddle 'is own canoe --<br>'E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse -- soldier an' sailor too.<br> <br>We've fought 'em in trooper, we've fought 'em in dock,<br> and drunk with 'em in betweens,<br>When they called us the seasick scull'ry-maids,<br> an' we called 'em the Ass Marines;<br>But, when we was down for a double fatigue, from Woolwich to Bernardmyo,<br>We sent for the Jollies -- 'Er Majesty's Jollies -- soldier an' sailor too!<br>They think for 'emselves, an' they steal for 'emselves,<br> and they never ask what's to do,<br>But they're camped an' fed an' they're up an' fed before our bugle's blew.<br>Ho! they ain't no limpin' procrastitutes -- soldier an' sailor too.<br> <br>You may say we are fond of an 'arness-cut, or 'ootin' in barrick-yards,<br>Or startin' a Board School mutiny along o' the Onion Guards;<br>But once in a while we can finish in style for the ends of the earth to view,<br>The same as the Jollies -- 'Er Majesty's Jollies -- soldier an' sailor too!<br>They come of our lot, they was brothers to us;<br> they was beggars we'd met an' knew;<br>Yes, barrin' an inch in the chest an' the arm, they was doubles o' me an' you;<br>For they weren't no special chrysanthemums -- soldier an' sailor too!<br> <br>To take your chance in the thick of a rush, with firing all about,<br>Is nothing so bad when you've cover to 'and, an' leave an' likin' to shout;<br>But to stand an' be still to the ~Birken'ead~ drill<br> is a damn tough bullet to chew,<br>An' they done it, the Jollies -- 'Er Majesty's Jollies --<br> soldier an' sailor too!<br>Their work was done when it 'adn't begun; they was younger nor me an' you;<br>Their choice it was plain between drownin' in 'eaps<br> an' bein' mopped by the screw,<br>So they stood an' was still to the ~Birken'ead~ drill, soldier an' sailor too!<br> <br>We're most of us liars, we're 'arf of us thieves,<br> an' the rest are as rank as can be,<br>But once in a while we can finish in style<br> (which I 'ope it won't 'appen to me).<br>But it makes you think better o' you an' your friends,<br> an' the work you may 'ave to do,<br>When you think o' the sinkin' ~Victorier~'s Jollies -- soldier an' sailor too!<br>Now there isn't no room for to say ye don't know --<br> they 'ave proved it plain and true --<br>That whether it's Widow, or whether it's ship, Victorier's work is to do,<br>An' they done it, the Jollies -- 'Er Majesty's Jollies --<br> soldier an' sailor too!</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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I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars' style.
'E was scrapin' the paint from off of 'er plates,
 an' I sez to 'im, ''Oo are you?'
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