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
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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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