<h2><SPAN name="page114"></SPAN><span class="pagenum"></span>THE IRISH COLONEL</h2>
<p class="poetry">Said the king to the colonel,<br/>
‘The complaints are eternal,<br/>
That you Irish give more trouble<br/>
Than any other corps.’</p>
<p class="poetry">Said the colonel to the king,<br/>
‘This complaint is no new thing,<br/>
For your foemen, sire, have made it<br/>
A hundred times before.’</p>
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