That we may lift from out of dust With faith that comes of self-control, The truths that never can be proved 10 THE EAGLE He clasps the crag with crooked hands; The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; From MAUD XVIII 5 20 5 Upon a pastoral slope as fair, And made my life a perfumed altar- And over whom thy darkness must have As when it seemed far better to be born I have led her home, my love, my only A sad astrology, the boundless plan friend. 35 That makes you tyrants in your iron skies, His nothingness into man. 40 Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, 50 Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Rode the six hundred. All the world wondered: Plunged in the battery-smoke Right through the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reeled from the sabre-stroke Shattered and sundered. Then they rode back, but not, Not the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came through the jaws of Death, Left of six hundred. When can their glory fade? Noble six hundred! NORTHERN FARMER OLD STYLE 15 20 25 30 35 40 50 55 Wheer 'asta beän saw long and meä liggin' 'ere aloän? Noörse? thourt nowt o' a noorse; whoy, Doctor's abeän an' agoän; 1 lying. Says that I moänt 'a naw moor aäle, but I I weänt saäy men be loiars, thaw summun beänt a fool; But a cast oop, thot a did, 'bout Bessy Marris's barne.2 said it in 'aäste; Dubbut looök at the waäste; theer warn't not feeäd for a cow; 14 Thaw a knaws I hallus voated wi' Squoire Nowt at all but bracken an' fuzz,11 an' an' choorch an' staäte, 15 looök at it now I beänt wonn as saws 'ere a beän an yonder a peä; I done moy duty boy 'um, as I 'a done boy An' Squoire u'll be sa mad an' all-a' dear, the lond. a' dear! And I 'a managed for Squoire coom Michaelmas thutty year. 25 3 tax. 11 anemones. 13 the assizes. 15 ewes. 12 one or the other. 14 furze. 16 this year. |