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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=537048" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Colonel Martin</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE Colonel went out sailing,<br>He spoke with Turk and Jew,<br>With Christian and with Infidel,<br>For all tongues he knew.<br>'O what's a wifeless man?' said he,<br>And he came sailing home.<br>He rose the latch and went upstairS<br>And found an empty room.<br>The Colonel went out sailing.<br>'I kept her much in the country<br>And she was much alone,<br>And though she may be there,' he said,<br>'She may be in the town.<br>She may be all alone there,<br>For who can say?' he said.<br>'I think that I shall find her<br>In a young man's bed.'<br>The Colonel went out sailing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III<br>The Colonel met a pedlar,<br>Agreed their clothes to swop,<br>And bought the grandest jewelry<br>In a Galway shop,<br>Instead of thread and needle<br>put jewelry in the pack,<br>Bound a thong about his hand,<br>Hitched it on his back.<br>The Colonel wcnt out sailing.<br>The Colonel knocked on the rich man's door,<br>'I am sorry,' said the maid,<br>'My mistress cannot see these things,<br>But she is still abed,<br>And never have I looked upon<br>Jewelry so grand.'<br>'Take all to your mistress,'<br>And he laid them on her hand.<br>The Colonel went out sailing.<br>And he went in and she went on<br>And both climbed up the stair,<br>And O he was a clever man,<br>For he his slippers wore.<br>And when they came to the top stair<br>He ran on ahead,<br>His wife he found and the rich man<br>In the comfort of a bed.<br>The Colonel went out sailing.<br>The Judge at the Assize Court,<br>When he heard that story told,<br>Awarded him for damages<br>Three kegs of gold.<br>The Colonel said to Tom his man,<br>'Harness an ass and cart,<br>Carry the gold about the town,<br>Throw it in every patt.'<br>The Colonel went out sailing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VII<br>And there at all street-corners<br>A man with a pistol stood,<br>And the rich man had paid them well<br>To shoot the Colonel dead;<br>But they threw down their pistols<br>And all men heard them swear<br>That they could never shoot a man<br>Did all that for the poor.<br>The Colonel went out sailing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VIII<br>'And did you keep no gold, Tom?<br>You had three kegs,' said he.<br>'I never thought of that, Sir.'<br>'Then want before you die.'<br>And want he did; for my own grand-dad<br>Saw the story's end,<br>And Tom make out a living<br>From the seaweed on the strand.<br>The Colonel went out sailing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Butler+Yeats">William Butler Yeats</a><div class=q>
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He spoke with Turk and Jew,
With Christian and with Infidel,
For all tongues he knew.
'O what's a wifeless man?' said he,
And he came sailing home.
He rose the latch and went upstairS
And found an empty room.
The Colo..."></div>
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