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| 2881. | Enemy Conscript by Robert William Service | | What are we fighting for,
We fellows who go to war?
fighting for Freedom's sake!
(You give me the belly-ache.)
Freedom to starve or slave!
Freedo... |
| 2882. | Triumph by Robert William Service | | Why am I full of joy although
It drizzles on the links?
Why am I buying Veuve Cliquot,
And setting up the drinks?
Why stand I like a pri... |
| 2883. | Shakespeare And Cervantes by Robert William Service | | Obit 23rd April 1616
Is it not strange that on this common date,
Two titans of their age, aye of all Time,
Together should renounce this mortal s... |
| 2884. | The Pretty Lady by Robert William Service | | He asked the lady in the train
If he might smoke: she smiled consent.
So lighting his cigar and fain
To talk he puffed away content,
Reflecting: h... |
| 2885. | Stupidity by Robert William Service | | Stupidity, woe's anodyne,
Be kind and comfort me in mine;
Smooth out the furrows of my brow,
Make me as carefree as a cow,
Content to sleep and ea... |
| 2886. | Dyspeptic Clerk by Robert William Service | | I think I'll buy a little field,
Though scant am I of pelf,
And hold the hope that it may yield
A living for myself;
For I have toiled ten thousan... |
| 2887. | Adoption by Robert William Service | | Because I was a woman lone
And had of friends so few,
I made two little ones my own,
Whose parents no one knew;
Unwanted foundlings of... |
| 2888. | Captivity by Robert William Service | | O meadow lark, so wild and free,
It cannot be, it cannot be,
That men to merchandise your spell
Do close you in a wicker hell!
O hedgerow thrush... |
| 2889. | The Joy Of Being Poor by Robert William Service | | I
Let others sing of gold and gear, the joy of being rich;
But oh, the days when I was poor, a vagrant in a ditch!
When every dawn was like a gem... |
| 2890. | A Cabbage Patch by Robert William Service | | Folk ask if I'm alive,
Most think I'm not;
Yet gaily I contrive
To till my plot.
The world its way can go,
I little... |
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