 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 Seven Seas - Page 8by Rudyard Kipling - 1896 - 209 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1915 - 632 pages
...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 admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full.' Aggressive patriotism is thus condemned by common sense and the verdict of history no less... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 pages
...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 admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full I WJ FLETCHER. 350 ELEPHANT HUNTING IN SIAM. THE Elephant Hunt, which is perhaps the most interesting... | |
 | 1898 - 346 pages
...the sands forlorn, Prom the Ducies to the Swin; If blood be the price of admiralty Good God, we have paid it in ! We must feed our sea for a thousand years, Por that is our doom and pride, As it was when they sailed with the Golden Hind, Or the wreck that... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1896 - 228 pages
...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 admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full! There's never a flood goes shoreward now But lifts a keel we manned ; There's never an ebb... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 416 pages
...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 admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full! There's never a flood goes shoreward now But lifts a keel we manned ; 186 There's never an... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 404 pages
...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 admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full ! There's never a flood goes shoreward now But lifts a keel we manned ; A SONG OF THE ENGLISH... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1897 - 808 pages
...that fateful summer of 1857, for the errors of English policy, and, in this sense, Mr. Kipling's " If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full ! " might be taken, mutatis mutandis, as the motto of her work. In the second place, Mrs. Steel... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1897 - 812 pages
...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, of the superb imaginative... | |
 | May Hunt - 1898 - 460 pages
...an Englisjj dead! We have strawed our best to the weeds' unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha 'paid in full I" The sea in Kipling is always associated with .life; it is the "well-ploughed sea" of which... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1898 - 400 pages
...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 admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid in full ! There's never a flood goes shoreward now But lifts a keel we manned ; There's never an ebb... | |
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