Lieutenant-colonel Flare Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The earth has armies plenty	A
And semi warlike bands	B
I dare say there are twenty	A
In European lands	B
But oh in no direction	C
You'd find one to compare	D
In brotherly affection	C
With that of COLONEL FLARE	D
	-
His soldiers might be rated	E
As military Pearls	F
As unsophisticated	G
As pretty little girls	F
They never smoked or ratted	G
Or talked of Sues or Polls	H
The Sergeant Major tatted	G
The others nursed their dolls	I
	-
He spent his days in teaching	J
These truly solemn facts	K
There's little use in preaching	J
Or circulating tracts	K
The vainest plan invented	G
For stifling other creeds	L
Unless it's supplemented	G
With charitable DEEDS	L
	-
He taught his soldiers kindly	A
To give at Hunger's call	M
Oh better far give blindly	A
Than never give at all	M
Though sympathy be kindled	G
By Imposition's game	N
Oh better far be swindled	G
Than smother up its flame	N
	-
His means were far from ample	O
For pleasure or for dress	P
Yet note this bright example	O
Of single heartedness	P
Though ranking as a Colonel	O
His pay was but a groat	G
While their reward diurnal	O
Was each a five pound note	G
	-
Moreover this evinces	P
His kindness you'll allow	Q
He fed them all like princes	P
And lived himself on cow	Q
He set them all regaling	J
On curious wines and dear	R
While he would sit pale ale ing	J
Or quaffing ginger beer	R
	-
Then at his instigation	C
A pretty fancy this	P
Their daily pay and ration	C
He'd take in change for his	P
They brought it to him weekly	A
And he without a groan	S
Would take it from them meekly	A
And give them all his own	S
	-
Though not exactly knighted	G
As knights of course should be	A
Yet no one so delighted	G
In harmless chivalry	A
If peasant girl or ladye	T
Beneath misfortunes sank	U
Whate'er distinctions made he	A
They were not those of rank	U
	-
No maiden young and comely	A
Who wanted good advice	P
However poor or homely	A
Need ask him for it twice	P
He'd wipe away the blindness	P
That comes of teary dew	G
His sympathetic kindness	P
No sort of limit knew	G
	-
He always hated dealing	J
With men who schemed or planned	G
A person harsh unfeeling	J
The Colonel could not stand	G
He hated cold suspecting	J
Official men in blue	G
Who pass their lives detecting	J
The crimes that others do	G
	-
For men who'd shoot a sparrow	V
Or immolate a worm	W
Beneath a farmer's harrow	V
He could not find a term	W
Humanely ay and knightly	A
He dealt with such an one	C
He took and tied him tightly	A
And blew him from a gun	C
	-
The earth has armies plenty	A
And semi warlike bands	P
I'm certain there are twenty	A
In European lands	P
But oh in no direction	C
You'd find one to compare	D
In brotherly affection	C
With that of COLONEL FLARE	D

William Schwenck Gilbert

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