
Read this you philistines.
What do you think of it?
You whom the kings saluted; who refused not
the one great pleasure of ignoble days,
Fame without name and glory without gossip,
Whom no biographer berouls with praise.
Who said of you 'Defeated'? In the darkness
The dugout where the limelight never comes
Nor the big drum of Branum's show can shatter
That vibrant stillness after all the drums.
Though the time comes when evry Yankee circus
Can use our soldiers for it's Sandwich-Men
When those that pay the piper call the tune
You will not dance. You will not move again.
You will not march for Fatty Arbuckle
Though he have yet a favourable press
Tender as San Francisco to St Francis
Or all the angels of Los Angeles.
They shall not storm the last unfallen fortress
The lonely castle where uncowed and free
Dwells the unknown and undefeated warrior
that did alone defeat publicity.
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Sat 5 Apr 2008, 1:27,
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What do you think of it?
You whom the kings saluted; who refused not
the one great pleasure of ignoble days,
Fame without name and glory without gossip,
Whom no biographer berouls with praise.
Who said of you 'Defeated'? In the darkness
The dugout where the limelight never comes
Nor the big drum of Branum's show can shatter
That vibrant stillness after all the drums.
Though the time comes when evry Yankee circus
Can use our soldiers for it's Sandwich-Men
When those that pay the piper call the tune
You will not dance. You will not move again.
You will not march for Fatty Arbuckle
Though he have yet a favourable press
Tender as San Francisco to St Francis
Or all the angels of Los Angeles.
They shall not storm the last unfallen fortress
The lonely castle where uncowed and free
Dwells the unknown and undefeated warrior
that did alone defeat publicity.

could you summarise?
Thanks in advance.
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Sat 5 Apr 2008, 1:28,
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Thanks in advance.