The Seven SeasTauchnitz, 1897 - 256 páginas |
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... ancient , fit ) My deep - sea plunderings , And purchase in all lands . And this we do for a sign Her power is over mine , And mine I hold at her hands ! DEDICATION CONTENTS . The Cities are full of pride , 8 THE SEVEN SEAS .
... ancient , fit ) My deep - sea plunderings , And purchase in all lands . And this we do for a sign Her power is over mine , And mine I hold at her hands ! DEDICATION CONTENTS . The Cities are full of pride , 8 THE SEVEN SEAS .
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... hands in the gloom , a league from the last of the sun . Hush ! Men talk to - day o'er the waste of the ultimate slime , And a new Word runs between : whispering , " Let us be one ! " THE SONG OF THE SONS . One from the ends of the ...
... hands in the gloom , a league from the last of the sun . Hush ! Men talk to - day o'er the waste of the ultimate slime , And a new Word runs between : whispering , " Let us be one ! " THE SONG OF THE SONS . One from the ends of the ...
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... Royal and Dower - royal , I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands- A thousand mills roar through me where I glean All races from all lands . CALCUTTA . Me the Sea - captain loved , the 28 THE SEVEN SEAS .
... Royal and Dower - royal , I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands- A thousand mills roar through me where I glean All races from all lands . CALCUTTA . Me the Sea - captain loved , the 28 THE SEVEN SEAS .
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... hands , but Gold ! MADRAS . Clive kissed me on the mouth and eyes and brow , Wonderful kisses , so that I became Crowned above Queens - a withered beldame now , Brooding on ancient fame . RANGOON . Hail , Mother ! Do they call me rich ...
... hands , but Gold ! MADRAS . Clive kissed me on the mouth and eyes and brow , Wonderful kisses , so that I became Crowned above Queens - a withered beldame now , Brooding on ancient fame . RANGOON . Hail , Mother ! Do they call me rich ...
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... the circling word has passed , Till West is East beside our land - locked blue ; From East to West the tested chain holds fast , The well - forged link rings true ! CAPETOWN . Hail ! Snatched and bartered oft from hand 30 THE SEVEN SEAS .
... the circling word has passed , Till West is East beside our land - locked blue ; From East to West the tested chain holds fast , The well - forged link rings true ! CAPETOWN . Hail ! Snatched and bartered oft from hand 30 THE SEVEN SEAS .
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ain't Army arquebus Aurochs Baltic be'ind beggar beneath bids Bill Awkins Blest blind bloomin blow bone burn Buy my English Captain Cheer clear crew crownin dead deck drunk dursn't eard earth eathen eyes fight fought gale Gawd grey guns hand hast head hear heart Hell Islands Jollies-'Er Majesty's jolly knew little things Lord M'Andrews M'Cullough Macassar Straits Man-the married Mary Gloster Mossel Bay naked neath never night Northern Light old three-decker Orse Orse Gunners overside Paddy Doyle port praise price of admiralty pride rail red tornado Reuben Paine road roaring Romance round Royal Engineer sail sailor Sapper Sarah Sands sergeant Sergeant's weddin Seven Seas ship sing skin skipper sloop-of-war snow song soul steam Stralsund Thee There's Thou thousand thunder thy pictures Tom Hall True Thomas turn Twas waitin watch wind women Ye'll
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Página 19 - 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
Página 17 - Fair is our lot — O goodly is our heritage ! (Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth /) For the Lord our God Most High He hath made the deep as dry, He hath smote for us a pathway to the ends of all the Earth...
Página 170 - 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!
Página 47 - I wonder if a soul was gied them wi' the blows. Oh for a man to weld it then, in one trip-hammer strain, Till even first-class passengers could tell the meanin' plain! But no one cares except mysel' that serve an' understand My seven thousand horse-power here.
Página 118 - Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; An' what he thought 'e might require, 'E went an
Página 169 - When earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colors have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it — lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall set us to work anew...
Página 149 - 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!
Página 60 - an she never looks nor 'eeds — The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, an' 'e gives 'er all she needs; But, oh, the little cargo-boats, that sail the wet seas roun', They're just the same as you an' me a-plyin' up an
Página 88 - There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, 'And — every — single — one — of — them — is — right...
Página 34 - Ho, we revel in our chains O'er the sorrow that was Spain's; Heave or sink it, leave or drink it, we were masters of the sea!