'Make a less noise', <br />my grandad used to say. <br />'Keep silence <br />in the ranks' <br />our old naval cox'n <br />hoarsely barked, <br />and 'Tikho, tikho, gospoda' <br />gently hushed our <br />Russian tutor, so <br />what was with all these guys <br />that they were always trying <br />to shut us up?<br /><br />Pete Crowther<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-other-words-shut-your-gob/
