SERGEANT FINCH
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He’s a popular sergeant, you bet, For he’ll rough it along with his men, And start up a song in the wet To set ’em all smiling again. His stories are naughty, I’m told, His voice has a sonorous sound; But the envy of all who behold Is the way that his puttees are wound. Blue-eyed, debonair, with a hat Cocked sideways the eighth of an inch, He’s sparrow-like: but for all that The name in his pay-book is Finch.