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Rudyard Kipling - For To Admire
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The Injian Ocean sets an` smiles
 So sof`, so bright, so bloomin` blue;
There aren`t a wave for miles an` miles
 Excep` the jiggle from the screw.
The ship is swep`, the day is done,
 The bugle`s gone for smoke and play;
An` black agin` the settin` sun
 The Lascar sings, "~Hum deckty hai!~"                 ["I`m looking out."]
 
     For to admire an` for to see,
      For to be`old this world so wide —
     It never done no good to me,
      But I can`t drop it if I tried!
 
I see the sergeants pitchin` quoits,
 I `ear the women laugh an` talk,
I spy upon the quarter-deck
 The orficers an` lydies walk.
I thinks about the things that was,
 An` leans an` looks acrost the sea,
Till spite of all the crowded ship
 There`s no one lef` alive but me.
 
The things that was which I `ave seen,
 In barrick, camp, an` action too,
I tells them over by myself,
 An` sometimes wonders if they`re true;
For they was odd — most awful odd —
 But all the same now they are o`er,
There must be `eaps o` plenty such,
 An` if I wait I`ll see some more.
 
Oh, I `ave come upon the books,
 An` frequent broke a barrick rule,
An` stood beside an` watched myself
 Be`avin` like a bloomin` fool.
I paid my price for findin` out,
 Nor never grutched the price I paid,
But sat in Clink without my boots,
 Admirin` `ow the world was made.
 
Be`old a crowd upon the beam,
 An` `umped above the sea appears
Old Aden, like a barrick-stove
 That no one`s lit for years an` years!
I passed by that when I began,
 An` I go `ome the road I came,
A time-expired soldier-man
 With six years` service to `is name.
 
My girl she said, "Oh, stay with me!"
 My mother `eld me to `er breast.
They`ve never written none, an` so
 They must `ave gone with all the rest —
With all the rest which I `ave seen
 An` found an` known an` met along.
I cannot say the things I feel,
 And so I sing my evenin` song:
 
     For to admire an` for to see,
      For to be`old this world so wide —
     It never done no good to me,
      But I can`t drop it if I tried!
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