It are n't no false alarm, The finish to your fun; You you 'ave brung the 'arm, An' now you'll off an' run Your 'eart? You 'ave n't none. Ah, Gawd, I love you so! When a man is tired there is naught will bind 'im; All'e solemn promised 'e will shove be'ind 'im. What's the good o' prayin' for The Wrath to strike 'im (Mary, pity women!), when the rest are like 'im? All the more you give 'em the less are they for givin'· What's the good o' pleadin', when the mother that bore you (Mary, pity women!) knew it all before you? Sleep on 'is promises an' wake to your sorrow (Mary, pity women!), for we sail to-morrow! "FOR TO ADMIRE" THE Injian Ocean sets an' smiles So sof', so bright, so bloomin' blue; The bugle's gone for smoke and play; The Lascar sings," Hum deckty hai! "1 For to admire an' for to see, For to be'old this world so wide. It never done no good to me, I see the sergeants pitchin' quoits, The officers an' lydies walk. An' leans an' looks acrost the sea, 1 "I'm looking out." The things that was which I 'ave seen, An' sometimes wonders if they're true; For they was odd most awful odd But all the same now they are o'er, There must be 'eaps o' plenty such, An' if I wait I'll see some more. Oh, I 'ave come upon the books, I paid my price for findin' out, Nor never grutched the price I paid, But sat in Clink without my boots, Admirin' 'ow the world was made. Be'old a cloud upon the beam, An' 'umped above the sea appears Old Aden, like a barrick-stove That no one's lit for years an' years! I passed by that when I began, An' I go 'ome the road I came, A time-expired soldier-man With six years' service to 'is name. My girl she said, "Oh, stay with me!" They must 'ave gone with all the rest I cannot say the things I feel, For to admire an' for to see, For to be'old this world so wide It never done no good to me, But I can't drop it if I tried! |