The Seven SeasD. Appleton & Company, 1896 - 209 pages |
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... blow- The bergs like kelpies overside that girn an ' turn an ' shift Whaur , grindin ' like the Mills o ' God , goes by the big South drift . ( Hail , snow an ' ice that praise the Lord : I've met them at their work , An ' wished we had ...
... blow- The bergs like kelpies overside that girn an ' turn an ' shift Whaur , grindin ' like the Mills o ' God , goes by the big South drift . ( Hail , snow an ' ice that praise the Lord : I've met them at their work , An ' wished we had ...
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... blow ! To the smoke of a hundred coasters , To the sheep on a thousand hills , To the sun that never blisters , To the rain that never chills— To the land of the waiting springtime , To our five - meal , meat - fed men , To the tall ...
... blow ! To the smoke of a hundred coasters , To the sheep on a thousand hills , To the sun that never blisters , To the rain that never chills— To the land of the waiting springtime , To our five - meal , meat - fed men , To the tall ...
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... care about , All bound to fight for the little things we care about With the weight of a six - fold blow ! By the might of our cable - tow , ( Take hands ! ) From the Orkneys to the Horn , All round the 52 The Native - born .
... care about , All bound to fight for the little things we care about With the weight of a six - fold blow ! By the might of our cable - tow , ( Take hands ! ) From the Orkneys to the Horn , All round the 52 The Native - born .
Page 61
... blow for the Baltic now , and head her back to the bay , " For we'll come into the game again with a double deck to play ! " They rang and blew the sealers ' call - the poaching cry o ' the sea- And they raised the Baltic out of the ...
... blow for the Baltic now , and head her back to the bay , " For we'll come into the game again with a double deck to play ! " They rang and blew the sealers ' call - the poaching cry o ' the sea- And they raised the Baltic out of the ...
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... drink , Through the caņons to the waters of the West ! And the tunes that mean alone- so much to you Common tunes that make you choke and blow your nose , Vulgar tunes that bring the laugh that brings the groan- The Song of the Banjo . 77.
... drink , Through the caņons to the waters of the West ! And the tunes that mean alone- so much to you Common tunes that make you choke and blow your nose , Vulgar tunes that bring the laugh that brings the groan- The Song of the Banjo . 77.
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Page 209 - And only the Master shall praise us. and only the Master shall blame: And no one shall work for money. and no one shall work for fame. But each for the joy of the working. and each. in his separate star. Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
Page 6 - We were dreamers, dreaming greatly, in the manstifled town; We yearned beyond the sky-line where the strange roads go down. Came the Whisper, came the Vision, came the Power with the Need. Till the Soul that is not man's soul was lent us to lead.
Page 17 - Go to your work and be strong, halting not in your ways, Balking the end half-won for an instant dole of praise. Stand to your work and be wise — certain of sword and pen, Who are neither children nor Gods, but men in a world of men...
Page 25 - Then stooped the Lord, and He called the good sea up to Him, And 'stablished his borders unto all eternity, That such as have no pleasure For to praise the Lord by measure, They may enter into galleons and serve Him on the sea. Sun, wind, and cloud shall fail not from the face of it, Stinging, ringing spindrift, nor the fulmar flying free; And the ships shall go abroad To the Glory of the Lord Who heard the silly sailor-folk and gave them back their sea...
Page 2 - Keep ye the Law — be swift in all obedience — Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford. Make ye sure to each his own That he reap where he hath sown ; By the peace among Our peoples let men know we serve the Lord!
Page 196 - eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone ; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is own ; 'E keeps 'is side-arms awful : 'e leaves 'em all about, An' then comes up the regiment an
Page 3 - neath us by the swinging, smoking seas. From reef and rock and skerry — over headland, ness, and voe — The Coastwise Lights of England watch the ships of England go!
Page 172 - Oogli, Shy as a girl to begin; Aggie de Castrer she made me, An' Aggie was clever as sin; Older than me, but my first un— More like a mother she were— Showed me the way to promotion an' pay, An' I learned about women from 'er!
Page 44 - Mornin' Stars for joy that they are made; While, out o' touch o' vanity, the sweatin' thrust-block says: "Not unto us the praise, or man — not unto us the praise!" Now, a' together, hear them lift their lesson — theirs an' mine: "Law, Orrder, Duty an' Restraint, Obedience, Discipline!" Mill, forge an' try-pit taught them that when roarin' they arose, An' whiles I wonder if a soul was gied them wi
Page 8 - 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 admiralty, Lord God, we ha