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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538898" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Abdul Abulbul Amir</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sons of the Prophet are brave men and bold<br>And quite unaccustomed to fear,<br>But the bravest by far in the ranks of the Shah,<br>Was Abdul Abulbul Amir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you wanted a man to encourage the van,<br>Or harass the foe from the rear,<br>Storm fort or redoubt, you had only to shout<br>For Abdul Abulbul Amir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now the heroes were plenty and well known to fame<br>In the troops that were led by the Czar,<br>And the bravest of these was a man by the name<br>Of Ivan Skavinsky Skavar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day this bold Russian, he shouldered his gun<br>And donned his most truculent sneer,<br>Downtown he did go where he trod on the toe<br>Of Abdul Abulbul Amir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Young man, quoth Abdul, has life grown so dull<br>That you wish to end your career?<br>Vile infidel, know, you have trod on the toe<br>Of Abdul Abulbul Amir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So take your last look at the sunshine and brook<br>And send your regrets to the Czar<br>For by this I imply, you are going to die,<br>Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then this bold Mameluke drew his trusty skibouk,<br>Singing, &quot;Allah! Il Allah! Al-lah!&quot;<br>And with murderous intent he ferociously went<br>For Ivan Skavinsky Skavar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They parried and thrust, they side-stepped and cussed,<br>Of blood they spilled a great part;<br>The philologist blokes, who seldom crack jokes,<br>Say that hash was first made on the spot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They fought all that night neath the pale yellow moon;<br>The din, it was heard from afar,<br>And huge multitudes came, so great was the fame,<br>Of Abdul and Ivan Skavar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As Abdul's long knife was extracting the life,<br>In fact he was shouting, &quot;Huzzah!&quot;<br>He felt himself struck by that wily Calmuck,<br>Count Ivan Skavinsky Skavar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Sultan drove by in his red-breasted fly,<br>Expecting the victor to cheer,<br>But he only drew nigh to hear the last sigh,<br>Of Abdul Abulbul Amir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's a tomb rises up where the Blue Danube rolls,<br>And graved there in characters clear,<br>Is, &quot;Stranger, when passing, oh pray for the soul<br>Of Abdul Abulbul Amir.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A splash in the Black Sea one dark moonless night<br>Caused ripples to spread wide and far,<br>It was made by a sack fitting close to the back,<br>Of Ivan Skavinsky Skavar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A Muscovite maiden her lone vigil keeps,<br>'Neath the light of the cold northern star,<br>And the name that she murmurs in vain as she weeps,<br>Is Ivan Skavinsky Skavar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Percy+French">William Percy French</a><div class=q>
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And quite unaccustomed to fear,
But the bravest by far in the ranks of the Shah,
Was Abdul Abulbul Amir.

If you wanted a man to encourage the van,
Or harass the foe from the rear,
Storm fort or redou..."></div>
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