<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511127" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Story of Uriah</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jack Barrett went to Quetta<br> Because they told him to.<br>He left his wife at Simla<br> On three-fourths his monthly screw.<br>Jack Barrett died at Quetta<br> Ere the next month's pay he drew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jack Barrett went to Quetta.<br> He didn't understand<br>The reason of his transfer<br> From the pleasant mountain-land.<br>The season was September,<br> And it killed him out of hand.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jack Barrett went to Quetta<br> And there gave up the ghost,<br>Attempting two men's duty<br> In that very healthy post;<br>And Mrs. Barrett mourned for him<br> Five lively months at most.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jack Barrett's bones at Quetta<br> Enjoy profound repose;<br>But I shouldn't be astonished<br> If now his spirit knows<br>The reason of his transfer<br> From the Himalayan snows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, when the Last Great Bugle Call<br> Adown the Hurnai throbs,<br>And the last grim joke is entered<br> In the big black Book of Jobs.<br>And Quetta graveyards give again<br> Their victims to the air,<br>I shouldn't like to be the man<br> Who sent Jack Barrett there.</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=511127" data-title="The Story of Uriah de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="Jack Barrett went to Quetta Because they told him to. He left his wife at Simla On three-fourths his monthly screw. Jack Barrett died at Quetta Ere the next month's pay he drew. Jack Barrett went to Quetta. He didn't understand The reason of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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