INFANTRY COLUMNS <br /> <br />We're foot--slog--slog--slog--sloggin' over Africa -- <br />Foot--foot--foot--foot--sloggin' over Africa -- <br />(Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again!) <br /> There's no discharge in the war! <br /> <br />Seven--six--eleven--five--nine-an'-twenty mile to-day -- <br />Four--eleven--seventeen--thirty-two the day before -- <br />(Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again!) <br /> There's no discharge in the war! <br /> <br />Don't--don't--don't--don't--look at what's in front of you. <br />(Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again); <br />Men--men--men--men--men go mad with watchin' em, <br /> An' there's no discharge in the war! <br /> <br />Try--try--try--try--to think o' something different -- <br />Oh--my--God--keep--me from goin' lunatic! <br />(Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again!) <br /> There's no discharge in the war! <br /> <br />Count--count--count--count--the bullets in the bandoliers. <br />If--your--eyes--drop--they will get atop o' you! <br />(Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again) -- <br /> There's no discharge in the war! <br /> <br />We--can--stick--out--'unger, thirst, an' weariness, <br />But--not--not--not--not the chronic sight of 'em -- <br />Boot--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again, <br /> An' there's no discharge in the war! <br /> <br />'Taint--so--bad--by--day because o' company, <br />But night--brings--long--strings--o' forty thousand million <br />Boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again. <br /> There's no discharge in the war! <br /> <br />I--'ave--marched--six--weeks in 'Ell an' certify <br />It--is--not--fire--devils, dark, or anything, <br />But boots--boots--boots--boots--movin' up an' down again, <br /> An' there's no discharge in the war!<br /><br />Rudyard Kipling<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/boots/
