The Seven SeasD. Appleton & Company, 1896 - 209 pages |
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... with mine ? " And the men that breed from them They traffic up and down , But cling to their cities ' hem As a child to the mother's gown . When they talk with the stranger bands , Dazed and. V DEDICATION TO THE CITY OF BOMBAY.
... with mine ? " And the men that breed from them They traffic up and down , But cling to their cities ' hem As a child to the mother's gown . When they talk with the stranger bands , Dazed and. V DEDICATION TO THE CITY OF BOMBAY.
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Rudyard Kipling. When they talk with the stranger bands , Dazed and newly alone ; When they walk in the stranger lands , By roaring streets unknown ; Blessing her where she stands For strength above their own . ( On high to hold her fame ...
Rudyard Kipling. When they talk with the stranger bands , Dazed and newly alone ; When they walk in the stranger lands , By roaring streets unknown ; Blessing her where she stands For strength above their own . ( On high to hold her fame ...
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... - come back again ! Go , get you gone up - Channel with the sea - crust on your plates ; Go , get you into London with the burden of your freights ! Haste , for they talk of Empire there , and A Song of the English .
... - come back again ! Go , get you gone up - Channel with the sea - crust on your plates ; Go , get you into London with the burden of your freights ! Haste , for they talk of Empire there , and A Song of the English .
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Rudyard Kipling. Haste , for they talk of Empire there , and say , if any seek , The Lights of England sent you and by silence shall ye speak . Ehe Song of the Dead . Hear now the Song of the Dead - in the North by the torn berg - edges ...
Rudyard Kipling. Haste , for they talk of Empire there , and say , if any seek , The Lights of England sent you and by silence shall ye speak . Ehe Song of the Dead . Hear now the Song of the Dead - in the North by the torn berg - edges ...
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... talk to - day o'er the waste of the ulti- mate slime , And a new Word runs between : whispering , " Let us be one ! " The Song of the Sons . One from the ends of the earth - gifts at an open door- Treason has much , but we , Mother ...
... talk to - day o'er the waste of the ulti- mate slime , And a new Word runs between : whispering , " Let us be one ! " The Song of the Sons . One from the ends of the earth - gifts at an open door- Treason has much , but we , Mother ...
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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