<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=542005" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Cavalry Soldier</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With loud talking and laughter,<br>And a long, careless stride,<br>He paces the crowded pathway,<br>With head high in pride.<br>And mean men passing beside him<br>Shrink, as from one unclean,<br>From the strong son of England,<br>The servant of the Queen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the forefront of battle<br>I think I see him ride,<br>With the drawn sabre gleaming<br>That swings at his side;<br>With a bearing erect and stalwart,<br>And a look calm and keen,<br>The strong son of England,<br>The servant of the Queen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the drums beat to battle,<br>With a quick-leaping breath,<br>'Mid the rush and hurry of warfare<br>He rides down to death.<br>And the waiting and toil and hardship<br>Are as if they had not been<br>To the strong son of England,<br>The servant of the Queen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the wild charge is over<br>And the safe ground they gain,<br>He may hear a cry from behind him<br>Of a comrade in pain.<br>And back on his way of mercy<br>To the smoke-mantled scene<br>Goes the strong son of England,<br>The servant of the Queen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Cicely+Fox+Smith">Cicely Fox Smith</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=542005" data-title="A Cavalry Soldier de Cicely Fox Smith" data-description="With loud talking and laughter, And a long, careless stride, He paces the crowded pathway, With head high in pride. And mean men passing beside him Shrink, as from one unclean, From the strong son of England, The servant of the Queen. In the fore..."></div> </div> </div>

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