The Five NationsMethuen, 1903 - 215 pages |
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Adam-zad African kopje battle be'ind blood bloomin Boots-boots-boots-boots breed Buddha camp COLUMNS Copyright crown dark dead Diego Valdez draw the wage dust eard Earth England feet fight files firin flank foes forget-lest we forget Foul weather geant go-go-go gold Good-bye guard guns hand hate hath hear heart Ikonas Kamakura King knew known a lot known as-we land Lichtenberg look Lord luck Mede movin neath never night Number o'er Old Queen once otherwise hillmen desire otherwise-so PEACE OF DIVES Pharaoh pompom pride Red Gods call Rimmon Rudyard Kipling Sergeant Whatisname shrapnel sight worse six undred smoke Snows soul South Africa sword thee There's no discharge things trekkin truce Trumpets Twixt Ubique means unto wait Ware shoal watch Waterval The meanin Wherefore Whisper White Horses White Man's burden WISE CHILDREN word worse than Piet
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Page 83 - Take up the White Man's burden The savage wars of peace Fill full the mouth of Famine And bid the sickness cease; And when your goal is nearest The end for others sought, Watch Sloth and heathen Folly Bring all your hope to nought. Take up the White Man's burden No tawdry rule of kings, But toil of serf and sweeper The tale of common things.
Page 55 - Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated — so: Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges — ' Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
Page 92 - Said our Lady of the Snows. A Nation spoke to a Nation, A Throne sent word to a Throne: " Daughter am I in my mother's house, But mistress in my own.
Page 75 - God gives all men all earth to love, But since man's heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall prove Beloved over all. Each to his choice, and I rejoice The lot has fallen to me In a fair ground — in a fair ground — Yea, Sussex by the sea!
Page 82 - 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.
Page 82 - 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...
Page 72 - As when the Romans came. What sign of those that fought and died At shift of sword and sword ? The barrow and the camp abide, The sunlight and the sward.
Page 83 - Take up the White Man's burden — And reap his old reward: The blame of those ye better, The hate of those ye guard — The cry of hosts ye humour (Ah, slowly!) toward the light: — "Why brought he us from bondage, Our loved Egyptian night?