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Originally Posted by johnfowles
Sorry Wes I simply do not believe you! That looks for all the world like the carefully thought out then well honed script of what you planned to say to Gord all nicely typed and printed oot for purposes of serious rehearsal.If you actually managed to blurt out more than the first six words intelligibly then you are a far better man than me Gunga Din and 98.6% of the motley crew here.Come clean and admit the truth and if you are going to try again today report on the simplified version that you just might splutter out this evening!! |
Gunga Din
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Gunga DinGunga Din (1892) is one of Rudyard Kipling's most famous poems, perhaps best known for its often-quoted last stanza, "Tho' I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"[1] The poem is a rhyming narrative from the point of view of a British soldier, about a native water-bearer (a 'bhisti') who saves the soldier's life but dies himself. Like several Kipling poems, it celebrates the virtues of a non-European while revealing the racism of a colonial infantryman who views such people as being of a "lower order". The poem was published as one of the set of martial poems called the 'Barrack Room Ballads'.
I don't believe you johnfowles.
Christ, you're awful.