 Go to ! I hate him and his trade : Who bade us so to cringe and bend, And all God's peaceful people made To such as him subservient ? Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet coats, In men because they load and fire, And know the art of...  Ballads - Página 16por William Makepeace Thackeray - 1856 - 228 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edwin Markham - 1927 - 362 páginas
...You wonder at his cap of hair: You hear his sabre's cursed clank, His spurs are jingling everywhere. Go to! I hate him and his trade: Who bade us so to...load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats? From "The Snd of the Tlay" THE play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling, to the prompter's bell:... | |
 | 1910 - 784 páginas
...that he must even sneer at his own poems, adds in the appendix to his stirring Chronicle of the Drum: "Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet...load and fire And know the art of cutting throats?" This extraordinary mental attitude assumed by certain men who, like Villon and Thackeray have never... | |
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...rank the soldier thus, The red-coat bully in his boots That hides the march of men from us, and asks, Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet...load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats? Lowell, in the Biglow Papers, declares, "Ez for war, I call it murder." Indeed in the twenty years... | |
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 | Henry Troth Coates - 1901 - 1126 páginas
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