An' now you'll off an' run With some new fool in tow. 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? What 'ope for me or-it? So 'elp me Christ, it's true! You coward through an' through! . Ah, Gawd, I love you so! All the more you give 'em the less are they for givin'! Love lies dead, an' you can not kiss 'im livin'. Down the road 'e led you there is no returnin', (Mary, pity women!) but you're late in learnin'. You'd like to treat me fair? You can't, because we're pore? . Ah, Gawd, I love you so! 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; An' black ag'in' the settin' sun The Lascar sings, "Hum deckty hai !''* 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! I see the sergeants pitchin' quoits, * "I'm looking out." I thinks about the things that was, An' leans an' looks acrost the sea, Till, spite of all the crowded ship, There's no one lef' alive but me. The things that was which I 'ave seen, An' sometimes wonders if they're true; Oh, I'ave come upon the books, Nor never grutched the price I paid, 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, With six years' service to 'is name. My girl she said, "Oh, stay with me!" My mother 'eld me to 'er breast. They've never written none, an' so They must 'ave gone with all the rest— With all the rest which I 'ave seen An' found an' known an' met along. I cannot say the things I feel, But still I sing my evenin' song: 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! |