Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/48

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THE MAN WHO COULD WRITE

Languished in a District desolate and dry;
Watched the Local Government yearly pass him by;
Wondered where the hitch was; called it most unfair.

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That was seven years ago—and he still is there.