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Fire Man

It was shortly after the Second War,
The rubble lay in heaps,
The bombs no longer dropped,
But where they had was bombed for keeps!
The lads ran wild in the undergrowth
That had been a stately home,
And gangs laid claim to the sacred turf
That they liked to call their own.

The gang of Harriman Somers claimed
An isolated patch,
Complete with an air raid shelter with
A concrete roof to match,
From up there, high on the roof they spied
The whole of the country wide,
To warn of approaching rival gangs
They posted guards outside.

When Raymond Kirk came wandering
On home through the bridle track,

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poem by David Lewis Paget
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Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

quote by Edward Harriman
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Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

quote by Edward H. Harriman
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The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.

quote by W. Averell Harriman
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I would rather have bad things written about me than be forgotten.

quote by Pamela Harriman
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.

quote by W. Averell Harriman
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Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.

quote by W. Averell Harriman
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There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

quote by W. Averell Harriman
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.

quote by W. Averell Harriman
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Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

quote by Edward H. Harriman
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