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BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS

TO WOLCOTT BALESTIER.

Beyond the path of the outmost sun through atter darkness hurled,

TO T. A.

I have made for you a song,

1889-1891

BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS

DANNY DEEVER .

"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade,

TOMMY

I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,

"FUZZY-WUZZY"

We've fought with many men acrost the seas,

SOLDIER, SOLDIER

"Soldier, soldier come from the wars,"

SCREW-GUNS

Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool,

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CELLS

I've a head like a concertina: I've a tongue like a button-stick,

GUNGA DIN.

You may talk o' gin and beer,

OONTS.

Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire?

LOOT.

If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back,

"SNARLEYOW"

This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps,

THE WIDOW AT WINDSOR

'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor?

BELTS.

There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay,

THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER

When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East,

MANDALAY .

By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,

TROOPIN'

Troopin', troopin', troopin' to the sea,

THE WIDOW'S PARTY

"Where have you been this while away?'

FORD O' KABUL RIVER

Kabul town's by Kabul river,

GENTLEMEN-RANKERS

To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned,

ROUTE MARCHIN'

We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains,

THE LAST SUTTEE

Udai Chand lay sick to death,

THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S MERCY

Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told,

THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S JEST

When spring-time flushes the desert grass,

THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST

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Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,

WITH SCINDIA TO DELHI.

The wreath of banquet overnight lay withered on the neck,

THE BALLAD OF BOH DA THONE.

This is the ballad of Boh Da Thone,

THIEF

O woe is me for the merry life,

THE LAMENT OF THE BORDER CATTLE

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THE RHYME OF THE THREE CAPTAINS

At the close of a winter day,

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THE BALLAD OF THE "CLAMPHERDOWN"

It was our war-ship Clampher down,

THE BALLAD OF THE "BOLIVAR"

Seven men from all the world back to Docks again,

THE SACRIFICE OF ER-HEB

Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai,

THE EXPLANATION

Love and Death once ceased their strife,

THE GIFT OF THE SEA .

The dead child lay in the shroud,

EVARRA AND HIS GODS. .

Read here: This is the story of Evarra-man

THE LEGEND OF EVIL
This is the sorrowful story,

"CLEARED"

Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt,

THE CONUNDRUM OF THE WORKSHOPS.

When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,

AN IMPERIAL RESCRIPT .

Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed,

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THE ENGLISH FLAG

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Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro,

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TOMLINSON

Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square,

L'ENVOI TO "LIFE'S HANDICAP"

My new-cut ashlar takes the light,

L'ENVOI.

There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield,

THE COASTWISE LIGHTS

Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees,

THE DEEP-SEA CABLES

The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar,

THE SONG OF THE DEAD

Hear now the Song of the Dead-in the North by the torn berg-edges,

THE SONG OF THE SONS

One from the ends of the earth-gifts at an open door-,

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