The Five NationsDoubleday, Page, 1903 - 215 páginas |
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... knew not noble Valdez , But me they knew and loved . Then they that found good liquor , They drank it not alone , And they that found fair plunder , They told us every one , About our chosen islands Or secret shoals between , When ...
... knew not noble Valdez , But me they knew and loved . Then they that found good liquor , They drank it not alone , And they that found fair plunder , They told us every one , About our chosen islands Or secret shoals between , When ...
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... knew his times and his seasons , as he knew mine , that fed By night in the ripened maizefield and robbed my house of bread ; I knew his strength and cunning , as he knew mine , that crept At dawn to the crowded goat - pens and ...
... knew his times and his seasons , as he knew mine , that fed By night in the ripened maizefield and robbed my house of bread ; I knew his strength and cunning , as he knew mine , that crept At dawn to the crowded goat - pens and ...
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... knew I'd stumbled on the Pass . " Thought to name it for the finder : but that night the Norther found me— Froze and killed the plains - bred ponies : so I called the camp Despair ( It's the Railway Gap to - day , though THE EXPLORER 53.
... knew I'd stumbled on the Pass . " Thought to name it for the finder : but that night the Norther found me— Froze and killed the plains - bred ponies : so I called the camp Despair ( It's the Railway Gap to - day , though THE EXPLORER 53.
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... knew , the while I doubted - knew His Hand was certain o'er me . Still - it might be self - delusion - scores of better men had died- I could reach the township living , but He knows what terrors tore me But I didn't · · · but I didn't ...
... knew , the while I doubted - knew His Hand was certain o'er me . Still - it might be self - delusion - scores of better men had died- I could reach the township living , but He knows what terrors tore me But I didn't · · · but I didn't ...
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... knew it When I heard myself hallooing to the funny folk I saw . • • Very full of dreams that desert : but my two legs took me through it And I used to watch ' em moving with the toes all black and raw . But at last the country altered ...
... knew it When I heard myself hallooing to the funny folk I saw . • • Very full of dreams that desert : but my two legs took me through it And I used to watch ' em moving with the toes all black and raw . But at last the country altered ...
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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.