 We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of...  The English Illustrated Magazine - Page 5351893Full view - About this book
 | 1915 - 632 pages
...suffer much more in the next generation. ' We have fed our sea for a thousand years, And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all...sheering gull, If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full.' Aggressive patriotism is thus condemned by common sense and the verdict... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 pages
...in the great sea which we have made our own. We have fed our sea for a thousand years, And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all...sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full I WJ FLETCHER. 350 ELEPHANT HUNTING IN SIAM. THE Elephant Hunt, which... | |
 | 1898 - 346 pages
...Says of England's Naval Wars. We have fed our sea for a thousand years. And she hails us, still unfed; There's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead. We have strewn our best to the weed's unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull; If blood be the price of... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1896 - 228 pages
...of joyful heart, Adventure for to know. II. We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all...sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full! There's never a flood goes shoreward now But lifts a keel we manned... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 416 pages
...for to know (As now bear witness here !) II We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all...sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full! There's never a flood goes shoreward now But lifts a keel we manned... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 404 pages
...for to know (As now bear witness here !) II We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all...sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full ! There's never a flood goes shoreward now But lifts a keel we manned... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1897 - 808 pages
...as this : " We liav« fed our seas for a thousand yean And she calls tu, still unfed, Though then 's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English...sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty. Lord God, we ha' paid in foil 1 " On the whole, in spite of a certain quantity of verse like the above,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1897 - 812 pages
...Though there 's never a wave of all her waves But marke опт English dead : We have strawed our beet to the weed's unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty. Lord God, we ha' paid in full I" On the whole, in spite of a certain quantity of verse like the above,... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - 1898 - 392 pages
...together ! FAMOUS CUTTING-OUT EXPEDITIONS " We have fed our sea for a thousand years, And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all...sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full ! There's never a flood goes shoreward now But lifts a keel we manned... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1898 - 400 pages
...for to know (As now bear witness here ! ) II We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all...sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full ! There's never a flood goes shoreward now But lifts a keel we manned... | |
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