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God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay,.
Gold is for the mistress-silver for the maid-

Harry, our King in England, from London town is gone,
"Have you news of my boy Jack?”

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He drank strong waters and his speech was coarse;
He passed in the very battle-smoke

Hear now the Song of the Dead-in the North by the torn berg-edges-
Heh! Walk her round. Heave, ah, heave her short again!
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, .

Her hand was still on her sword-hilt, the spur was still on her heel,
Here come I to my own again,

Here is a horse to tame

"Here is nothing new nor aught unproven," say the Trumpets,

Here we go in a flung festoon,

Here, where my fresh-turned furrows run,

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His spots are the joy of the Leopard: his horns are the Buffalo's pride. 705

"How far is St. Helena from a little child at play?”

How shall she know the worship we would do her?

"How sweet is the shepherd's sweet life!

Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, pride of Bow Bazaar,

I am the land of their fathers. .

I am the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones,

I ate my fill of a whale that died.

I closed and drew for my love's sake

I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way,

I do not love my Empire's foes,

I followed my Duke ere I was a lover,

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go to concert, party, ball-

I had seen, as dawn was breaking

I have been given my charge to keep-

I have eaten your bread and salt.

I have made for you a song,.
I keep six honest serving-men

I know not in whose hands are laid

I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I am old!)

I see the grass shake in the sun for leagues on either hand,

I sent a message to my dear-

I tell this tale, which is strictly true,.

I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines-

I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chain-

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I wish my mother could see me now, with a fence-post under my arm,

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I was Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded. .

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I was the staunchest of our fleet

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I was very well pleased with what I knowed,

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I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, .
I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at,
I'm just in love with these three,

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I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick,
I've never sailed the Amazon,

I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured

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If extended observation of the ways and works of man,
"If I have taken the common clay

If I were hanged on the highest hill,

If it be pleasant to look on, stalled in the packed serai,.

If the Led Striker call it a strike,

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If thought can reach to Heaven,

If wars were won by feasting,

If you can keep your head when all about you

If you stop to find out what your wages will be.

If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,

If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back,
Imprimis he was "broke." Thereafter left .

In a land that the sand overlays—the ways to her gates are untrod-
In Lowestoft a boat was laid, . .

In the days of lace-ruffles, perukes and brocade
In the daytime, when she moved about me,

In the name of the Empress of India, make way,
In the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage.
It got beyond all orders an' it got beyond all 'ope; .
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
It was an artless Bandar and he danced upon a pine,
It was an August evening and, in snowy garments clad,
It was not in the open fight.

It was not part of their blood, .

It was our war-ship Clampherdown

It's forty in the shade to-day the spouting eaves declare;

Jack Barrett went to Quetta

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Legate, I had the news last night-my cohort ordered home

'Less you want your toes trod off you'd better get back at once,

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Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should,

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"Let us now praise famous men"

Life's all getting and giving,

Lived a woman wonderful,

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Me that 'ave been what I've been-

Men make them fires on the hearth

Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these

Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream,
Love and Death once ceased their strife

Man goes to Man! Cry the challenge through the Jungle!
March! The mud is cakin' good about our trousies,

Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her:

Mithras, God of the Morning, our trumpets waken the Wall!
Much I owe to the Lands that grew-

My brother kneels, so saith Kabir,.

My father's father saw it not,

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My garden blazes brightly with the rose-bush and the peach,
My name is O'Kelly, I've heard the Revelly

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My new-cut ashlar takes the light.

"My son," said the Norman Baron, "I am dying and you will be heir 749
Naked and grey the Cotswolds stand.

Neither the harps nor the crowns amused, nor the cherubs' dove-winged

races-

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No doubt but ye are the People-your throne is above the Kings.
No hope, no change! The clouds have shut us in,.
"None whole or clean," we cry, "or free from stain.

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Not though you die to-night O Sweet, and wail,

Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining

Now Chil the Kite brings home the night

Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown,
Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, .
Now the Four-way Lodge is opened, now the Hunting Winds are
loose-

Now the New Year, reviving last Year's Debt,

Now the new year reviving old desires,

Now, this is the cup the White Men drink"

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky;
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed,

Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square,
Now we are come to our Kingdom,

O woe is me for the merry life

O ye who tread the Narrow Way
Of all the trees that grow so fair,

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Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, .
Oh gallant was our galley from her carven steering-wheel
Oh glorious are the guarded heights

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Oh Hubshee, carry your shoes in your hand and bow your head on
your breast!

Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us,.

Oh, light was the world that he weighed in his hands!

Oh, little did the Wolf-child care-

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"Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers,

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Oh ye who hold the written clue

Old Horn to All Atlantic said:

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"Old Mother Laidinwool had nigh twelve months been dead.
Once a ripple came to land.

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Once on a time was a King anxious to understand

One from the ends of the earth-gifts at an open door-
One man in a thousand, Solomon says,

One moment bid the horses wait,

One moment past our bodies cast

Only two African Kopjes, .

Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout,

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

Our England is a garden that is full of stately views,

Our Fathers in a wondrous age,

Our gloves are stiff with the frozen blood,

Our Lord Who did the Ox command

Our sister sayeth such and such,

Out o' the wilderness, dusty an' dry

Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid,

Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago,

Once we feared The Beast-when he followed us we ran,

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Over the edge of the purple down,

Pagett, M.P., was a liar, and a fluent liar therewith,-

Peace is declared, an' I return.

Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide,

Potiphar Gubbins, C.E.,

Prophets have honour all over the Earth,.

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Pussy can sit by the fire and sing,.

Put forth to watch, unschooled, alone,

Queen Bess was Harry's daughter. Stand forward partners all!

Read here: This is the story of Evarra-man-

Red Earl, and will ye take for guide

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Ride with an idle whip, ride with an unused heel,

Rome never looks where she treads.

Roses red and roses white

Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen

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Rustum Beg of Kolazai-slightly backward Native State-
Said England unto Pharaoh, "I must make a man of you,
See you the ferny ride that steals

Seven men from all the world back to Docks again,
Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower,

Sez the Junior Orderly Sergeant

She dropped the bar, she shot the bolt, she fed the fire anew,

Shiv, who poured the harvest and made the winds to blow,
Shove off from the wharf-edge! Steady!.

Singer and tailor am I—

Smells are surer than sounds or sights

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

So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good..
So long as 'neath the Kalka hills

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So we settled it all when the storm was done.

Soldier, soldier come from the wars,

South and far south below the Line,

Speakin' in general, I 'ave tried 'em all-

"Stopped in the straight when the race was his own!

Strangers drawn from the ends of the earth, jewelled and plumed

• were we; .

Sudden the desert changes,

Tell it to the locked-up trees,

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The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone;
The eldest son bestrides him,

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The fans and the beltings they roar round me.

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The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea,.

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The first time that Peter denied his Lord

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The Four Archangels, so the legends tell,

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