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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538943" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>General John</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bravest names for fire and flames<br>And all that mortal durst,<br>Were GENERAL JOHN and PRIVATE JAMES,<br>Of the Sixty-seventy-first.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">GENERAL JOHN was a soldier tried,<br>A chief of warlike dons;<br>A haughty stride and a withering pride<br>Were MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN'S.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sneer would play on his martial phiz,<br>Superior birth to show;<br>"Pish!" was a favourite word of his,<br>And he often said "Ho! ho!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">FULL-PRIVATE JAMES described might be,<br>As a man of a mournful mind;<br>No characteristic trait had he<br>Of any distinctive kind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the ranks, one day, cried PRIVATE JAMES,<br>"Oh! MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN,<br>I've doubts of our respective names,<br>My mournful mind upon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"A glimmering thought occurs to me<br>(Its source I can't unearth),<br>But I've a kind of a notion we<br>Were cruelly changed at birth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"I've a strange idea that each other's names<br>We've each of us here got on.<br>Such things have been," said PRIVATE JAMES.<br>"They have!" sneered GENERAL JOHN.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"My GENERAL JOHN, I swear upon<br>My oath I think 'tis so - "<br>"Pish!" proudly sneered his GENERAL JOHN,<br>And he also said "Ho! ho!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"My GENERAL JOHN! my GENERAL JOHN!<br>My GENERAL JOHN!" quoth he,<br>"This aristocratical sneer upon<br>Your face I blush to see!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"No truly great or generous cove<br>Deserving of them names,<br>Would sneer at a fixed idea that's drove<br>In the mind of a PRIVATE JAMES!"</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Said GENERAL JOHN, "Upon your claims<br>No need your breath to waste;<br>If this is a joke, FULL-PRIVATE JAMES,<br>It's a joke of doubtful taste.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"But, being a man of doubtless worth,<br>If you feel certain quite<br>That we were probably changed at birth,<br>I'll venture to say you're right."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So GENERAL JOHN as PRIVATE JAMES<br>Fell in, parade upon;<br>And PRIVATE JAMES, by change of names,<br>Was MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Schwenck+Gilbert">William Schwenck Gilbert</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=538943" data-title="General John de William Schwenck Gilbert" data-description="The bravest names for fire and flames And all that mortal durst, Were GENERAL JOHN and PRIVATE JAMES, Of the Sixty-seventy-first. GENERAL JOHN was a soldier tried, A chief of warlike dons; A haughty stride and a withering pride Were MAJOR-GENERAL..."></div> </div> </div>
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