The Five NationsDoubleday, Page, 1903 - 215 páginas |
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... ride . A ship - length overside , Between the course and the sand , Fretted and bound I bide Peril whereof I cry . Would I change with my brother a league inland ? ( Shoal ! ' Ware shoal ! ) Not I ! CRUISERS As our mother the Frigate ...
... ride . A ship - length overside , Between the course and the sand , Fretted and bound I bide Peril whereof I cry . Would I change with my brother a league inland ? ( Shoal ! ' Ware shoal ! ) Not I ! CRUISERS As our mother the Frigate ...
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... The coming of the herd ! Whose hand may grip your nostrils- Your forelock who may hold ? E'en they that use the broads with us The riders bred and bold , That spy upon our matings , That rope us where 16 THE FIVE NATIONS.
... The coming of the herd ! Whose hand may grip your nostrils- Your forelock who may hold ? E'en they that use the broads with us The riders bred and bold , That spy upon our matings , That rope us where 16 THE FIVE NATIONS.
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... Horses Above their father's grave ; And , kin of those we crippled , And , sons of those we slew , Spur down the wild white riders To school the herds anew . What service have ye paid them , Oh jealous steeds WHITE HORSES 17.
... Horses Above their father's grave ; And , kin of those we crippled , And , sons of those we slew , Spur down the wild white riders To school the herds anew . What service have ye paid them , Oh jealous steeds WHITE HORSES 17.
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... our pickets The wild white riders lie . Trust ye the curdled hollows- Trust ye the neighing wind- Trust ye the moaning groundswell- Our herds are close behind ! To bray your foeman's armies- To chill and snap his. 18 THE FIVE NATIONS.
... our pickets The wild white riders lie . Trust ye the curdled hollows- Trust ye the neighing wind- Trust ye the moaning groundswell- Our herds are close behind ! To bray your foeman's armies- To chill and snap his. 18 THE FIVE NATIONS.
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... ride ? Do you know the joy of threshing leagues to leeward of your port On a coast you've lost the chart of overside ? It is there that I am going , with an extra hand to bale her- Just one able ' long - shore loafer that I know . He ...
... ride ? Do you know the joy of threshing leagues to leeward of your port On a coast you've lost the chart of overside ? It is there that I am going , with an extra hand to bale her- Just one able ' long - shore loafer that I know . He ...
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Página 215 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, Such boastings as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget— left we forget!
Página 81 - Take up the White Man's burden — Ye dare not stoop to less — Nor call too loud on Freedom To cloak your weariness; By all ye cry or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent, sullen peoples Shall weigh your Gods and you.
Página 214 - The tumult and the shouting dies — The captains and the kings depart — Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart.
Página 79 - TAKE up the White Man's burden — Send forth the best ye breed — Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild — Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.
Página 71 - All heavy-winged with brine, Here lies above the folded crest The Channel's leaden line; And here the sea-fogs lap and cling, And here, each warning each, The sheep-bells and the ship-bells ring Along the hidden beach. We have no waters to delight Our broad and brookless vales — Only the dewpond on the height Unfed, that never fails...
Página 79 - Take up the White Man's burden — Send forth the best ye breed — Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild — Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child. Take up the White Man's Burden...
Página 213 - ath it come to me — not pride, Nor yet conceit, but on the 'ole (If such a term may be applied), The makin's of a bloomin' soul. But now, discharged, I fall away To do with little things again. . . . Gawd, 'oo knows all I cannot say, Look after me in Thamesfontein ! // England was what England seems An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er!
Página 59 - Ores you'll find there; wood and cattle; water-transit sure and steady (That should keep the railway rates down), coal and iron at your doors. God took care to hide that country till He judged His people ready, Then He chose me for His Whisper, and I've found it, and it's yours! Yes, your "Never-never country" — yes, your "edge of cultivation " And "no sense in going further" — till I crossed the range to see.
Página 108 - All we have of freedom, all we use or know — This our fathers bought for us long and long ago. Ancient Right unnoticed as the breath we draw — Leave to live by no man's leave, underneath the Law.