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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RATAPLAN, by EDWARD CRACROFT LEFROY
First Line: O rataplan! It is a merry note
Last Line: "and that's the end of glory. ""rataplan!"
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: O rataplan! It is a merry note
Last Line: "and that's the end of glory. ""rataplan!"
Subject(s): Mothers
"O RATAPLAN! It is a merry note,
And, mother, I'm for 'listing in the morn."
"And would ye, son, to wear a scarlet coat,
Go leave your mother's latter age forlorn?"
"O mother, I am sick of sheep and goat,
Fat cattle, and the reaping of the corn;
I long to see the British colors float;
For glory, glory, glory, was I born!"
She saw him march. It was a gallant sight.
She blest herself and praised him for a man.
And straight he hurried to the bitter fight,
And found a bullet in the drear Soudan.
They dug a shallow grave--'t was all they might;
And that's the end of glory. "Rataplan!"
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