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Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban,
THE FIRST CHANTEY
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Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her,
Thus said The Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim,
Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream,
THE NATIVE-BORN
We've drunk to the Queen-God bless her!
THE RHYME OF THE THREE SEALERS .
Away by the lands of the Japanee,
THE ANSWER
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A Rose, in tatters, on the garden path,
The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds,
The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea,
Heh! Walk her round. Heave, ah heave her short again!
FROM "MANY INVENTIONS."
In the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage,
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago,
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Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail,
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THE "MARY GLOSTER"
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I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim,
I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at,
March! The mud is cakin' good about our trousies,
As I was spitting into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile,
SAPPERS
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When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear,
It got beyond all orders an' it got beyond all 'ope,
"THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN"
The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time,
CHOLERA CAMP
We've got the cholerer in camp-it's worse than forty fights,
Through the Plagues of Egyp' we was chasin' Arabi,
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone,
THE SHUT-EYE SENTRY.
Sez the Junior Orderly Sergeant,
"MARY, PITY WOMEN!”.
You call yourself a man,
FOR TO ADMIRE .
The Injian Ocean sets an' smiles,
L'ENVOI
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
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