I was thinking Kipling.
On Dec 17, 2007 11:34 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And with a smidgen of Banjo Patterson??
> Cheers P
>
>
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of kasper salonen
> Sent: 17 December 2007 08:57
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> Subject: Re: Poem: The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy
>
> are you sure Joe Green didn't write this?
>
> KS
>
> On 17/12/2007, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > The Man He Killed
> >
> > by Thomas Hardy
> >
> >
> > Had he and I but met
> > By some old ancient inn,
> > We should have set us down to wet
> > Right many a nipperkin!
> >
> > But ranged as infantry,
> > And staring face to face,
> > I shot at him as he at me,
> > And killed him in his place.
> >
> > I shot him dead because--
> > Because he was my foe,
> > Just so: my foe of course he was;
> > That's clear enough; although
> >
> > He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
> > Off-hand like--just as I--
> > Was out of work--had sold his traps--
> > No other reason why.
> >
> > Yes; quaint and curious war is!
> > You shoot a fellow down
> > You'd treat, if met where any bar is,
> > Or help to half a crown.
> >
> > --
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> >
> > Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/
> >
> > ===================================
> >
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