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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552552" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Fifty Cents A Day</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am an humble Soldier<br>far from my friends and home, <br>mid scenes of war and hardships<br>I constantly must roam, <br>with many officers over me, <br>and them I must obey, <br>and do just what they tell me, <br>for fifty cents a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I enlisted in the army<br>to help my country's cause, <br>because I loved it dearly, <br>and would sustain its laws, <br>I felt a free man's duty, <br>his country to obey, <br>I came not as a hireling, <br>for fifty cents a day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I enlisted as a soldier.<br>a free man and a man<br>To do a soldiers duty, <br>as best a soldier can.<br>hope to fight the rebels, <br>and hate this long delay.<br>I came to help my country, <br>for fifty cents a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I now must yield to hardships<br>in cold in storm and rain<br>perchance with scanty rations<br>not even then complain<br>the right of seeking comfort<br>long since I signed away<br>my life I am slowly losing<br>for fifty cents a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who send the soldiers to the field<br>to buy his willing hand, <br>with promises so plentiful, <br>of treatment like a man? <br>twas those who, in two days, <br>received a larger pay<br>than does the soldiers in a month<br>at fifty cents a day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who promised to the soldier, <br>his wrongs should be redressed<br>if tyanny or officers<br>should his right oppress? <br>alas! the sword may smight him, <br>or kicked around he may be, <br>he finds his only redress, <br>is fifty cents a day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who promised to the soldiers, <br>if sickness should appear, <br>good doctors and kind nurses<br>was ready and was near, <br>to aid him in his feebleness<br>as quick as though his pay<br>was ten times as much<br>as fifty cents a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">twas those who wear the shoulder straps<br>with haughty air of grace, <br>who look upon the soldier<br>below the negro race, <br>who thinks a soldier's duty <br>is only to obey<br>his lordship, and be content<br>with fifty cents a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how oft I've seen the soldier, <br>near tottering to the ground, <br>seek vainly for some friendly aid, <br>when it could ne'er be found, <br>when told he was not ailing, <br>to go and take his way, <br>one week would end his suffering<br>and fifty cents a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">now, how many of these officers<br>would be here where they are, <br>if forced to live like soldiers, <br>and take a soldier's fare? <br>how few would take the treatment<br>even with their liberal pay, <br>let alone the poor pittance<br>of fifty cents a day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">cheer up my gallant soldiers, <br>be cheerful, gay, and smile, <br>we'll do the fighting now, <br>and the voting after awhile, <br>and then we'll show oppressors<br>that they may fell dismay, <br>who treated us as serviles, <br>at fifty cents a day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>This poem was written by my great, great, great, grandfather when he was a POW in the civil war. He wrote this during the month of December 1863. I wanted to share this with everyone in memory of him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shauna+Stoltz">Shauna Stoltz</a><div class=q>
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far from my friends and home, 
mid scenes of war and hardships
I constantly must roam, 
with many officers over me, 
and them I must obey, 
and do just what they tell me, 
for fifty cents a day.

I enlisted in the army
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