The Seven SeasD. Appleton & Company, 1896 - 209 pages |
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... fight - haggle and flout and gibe ; Selling our love for a price , loaning our hearts for a bribe . Gifts have we only to - day - Love without promise or fee- Hear , for thy children speak , from the uttermost parts of the sea : The ...
... fight - haggle and flout and gibe ; Selling our love for a price , loaning our hearts for a bribe . Gifts have we only to - day - Love without promise or fee- Hear , for thy children speak , from the uttermost parts of the sea : The ...
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... fight of all , That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall . Draw now the three - fold knot firm on the nine- fold bands , And the Law that ye make shall be law after the rule of your lands . This for the waxen Heath , and ...
... fight of all , That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall . Draw now the three - fold knot firm on the nine- fold bands , And the Law that ye make shall be law after the rule of your lands . This for the waxen Heath , and ...
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... fights for the little things he cares about With the weight of a single 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 ...
... fights for the little things he cares about With the weight of a single 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 ...
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... 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 .
... 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 .
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... fight , When the Baltic ran from the Northern Light And the Stralsund fought the two ! Now this is the Law of the Muscovite , that he proves with shot and steel , When ye come by his isles in the Smoky Sea ye must not take the seal ...
... fight , When the Baltic ran from the Northern Light And the Stralsund fought the two ! Now this is the Law of the Muscovite , that he proves with shot and steel , When ye come by his isles in the Smoky Sea ye must not take the seal ...
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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 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 25 - stablished its 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 174 - What did the Colonel's Lady think? Nobody never knew. Somebody asked the Sergeant's wife, An' she told 'em true! When you get to a man in the case, They're like as a row of pins — For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins!
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