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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511030" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lesson</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1899-1902 -- Boer War</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should,<br>We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not on a single issue, or in one direction or twain,<br>But conclusively, comprehensively, and several times and<br>again,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Were all our most holy illusions knocked higher than Gilde-<br>roy's kite.<br>We have had a jolly good lesson, and it serves us jolly well<br>right !</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This was not bestowed us under the trees, nor yet in the shade<br>of a tent,<br>But swingingly, over eleven degrees of a bare brown conti-<br>nent.<br>From Lamberts to Delagoa Bay, and from Pietersburg to<br>Sutherland,<br>Fell the phenomenal lesson we learned-with a fullness ac-<br>corded no other land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was our fault, and our very great fault, and not the judg-<br>ment of Heaven.<br>We made an Army in our own image, on an island nine by<br>seven,<br>Which faithfully mirrored its makers' ideals, equipment, and<br>mental attitude--<br>And so we got our lesson: and we ought to accept it with<br>gratitude.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have spent two hundred million pounds to prove the fact<br>once more,<br>That horses are quicker than men afoot, since two and two<br>make four;<br>And horses have four legs, and men have two legs, and two<br>into four goes twice,<br>And nothing over except our lesson--and very cheap at the<br>price.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For remember (this our children shall know: we are too near<br>for that knowledge)<br>Not our mere astonied camps, but Council and Creed and<br>College--<br>All the obese, unchallenged old things that stifle and overlie<br>us--<br>Have felt the effects of the lesson we got-an advantage no<br>money could by us!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then let us develop this marvellous asset which we alone<br>command,<br>And which, it may subsequently transpire, will be worth as<br>much as the Rand.<br>Let us approach this pivotal fact in a humble yet hopeful<br>mood--<br>We have had no end of a lesson, it will do us no end of good!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was our fault, and our very great fault--and now we must<br>turn it to use.<br>We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single<br>excuse.<br>So the more we work and the less we talk the better results<br>we shall get--<br>We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire<br>yet!</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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Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should,
We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good.

Not on a single issue, or in one direction or twain,
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