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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539615" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines in Praise of Tommy Atkins</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Success to Tommy Atkins, he's a very brave man,<br>And to deny it there's few people can;<br>And to face his foreign foes he's never afraid,<br>Therefore he's not a beggar, as Rudyard Kipling has said. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, he's paid by our Government, and is worthy of his hire;<br>And from our shores in time of war he makes our foes retire,<br>He doesn't need to beg; no, nothing so low;<br>No, he considers it more honourable to face a foreign foe. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, he's not a beggar, he's a more useful man,<br>And, as Shakespeare has said, his life's but a span;<br>And at the cannon's mouth he seeks for reputation,<br>He doesn't go from door to door seeking a donation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, think of Tommy Atkins when from home far away,<br>Lying on the battlefield, earth's cold clay;<br>And a stone or his knapsack pillowing his head,<br>And his comrades lying near by him wounded and dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And while lying there, poor fellow, he thinks of his wife at home,<br>And his heart bleeds at the thought, and he does moan;<br>And down his cheek flows many a silent tear,<br>When he thinks of his friends and children dear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Kind Christians, think of him when far, far away,<br>Fighting for his Queen and Country without dismay;<br>May God protect him wherever he goes,<br>And give him strength to conqner his foes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To call a soldier a beggar is a very degrading name,<br>And in my opinion it's a very great shame;<br>And the man that calls him a beggar is not the soldier's friend,<br>And no sensible soldier should on him depend. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A soldier is a man that ought to be respected,<br>And by his country shouldn't be neglected;<br>For he fights our foreign foes, and in danger of his life,<br>Leaving behind him his relatives and his dear wife. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then hurrah for Tommy Atkins, he's the people's friend,<br>Because when foreign foes assail us he does us defend;<br>He is not a beggar, as Rudyard Kipling has said,<br>No, he doesn't need to beg, he lives by his trade. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in conclusion I will say,<br>Don't forget his wife and children when he's far away;<br>But try and help them all you can,<br>For remember Tommy Atkins is a very useful man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a><div class=q>
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And to deny it there's few people can;
And to face his foreign foes he's never afraid,
Therefore he's not a beggar, as Rudyard Kipling has said. 

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