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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Rowers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">1899 -- When Germany proposed that England should help her in a naval demonstration to collect debts from Venezuela.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The banked oars fell an hundred strong,<br>And backed and threshed and ground,<br>But bitter was the rowers' song<br>As they brought the war-boat round.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They had no heart for the rally and roar<br>That makes the whale-bath smoke --<br>When the great blades cleave and hold and leave<br>As one on the racing stroke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They sang:--What reckoning do you keep,<br>And steer by what star,<br>If we come unscathed from the Southern deep<br>To be wrecked on a Baltic bar?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Last night you swore our voyage was done,<br>But seaward still we go.<br>And you tell us now of a secret vow<br>You have made with an open foe! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;That we must lie off a lightless coast<br>And houl and back and veer<br>At the will of the breed that have wrought us most<br>For a year and a year and a year!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;There was never a shame in Christendie<br>They laid not to our door--<br>And you say we must take the winter sea<br>And sail with them once more?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Look South! The gale is scarce o'erpast<br>That stripped and laid us down,<br>When we stood forth but they stood fast<br>And prayed to see us drown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Our dead they mocked are scarcely cold,<br>Our wounds are bleeding yet--<br>And you tell us now that our strength is sold<br>To help them press for a debt!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;'Neath all the flags of all mankind<br>That use upon the seas,<br>Was there no other fleet to find<br>That you strike bands with these?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Of evil times that men can choose<br>On evil fate to fall,<br>What brooding Judgment let you loose<br>To pick the worst of all?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;In sight of peace--from the Narrow Seas<br>O'er half the world to run--<br>With a cheated crew, to league anew<br>With the Goth and the shameless Hun!&quot;</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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