The Seven SeasD. Appleton, 1905 - 209 páginas |
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... 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 to hand , I dream my dream , by rock ...
... 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 to hand , I dream my dream , by rock ...
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... passed away On the smoke of Judgment Day . That Our word may be established shall We gather up the sea ? " Loud sang the souls of the jolly , jolly mariners : 66 Plague upon the hurricane that made us furl and flee ! But the war is done ...
... passed away On the smoke of Judgment Day . That Our word may be established shall We gather up the sea ? " Loud sang the souls of the jolly , jolly mariners : 66 Plague upon the hurricane that made us furl and flee ! But the war is done ...
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... passed the Isle o ' Ghosts ! And north , amid the hummocks , A biscuit - toss below , We met the silent shallop That frighted whalers know ; For , down a cruel ice - lane , That opened as he sped , We saw dead Henry Hudson Steer , North ...
... passed the Isle o ' Ghosts ! And north , amid the hummocks , A biscuit - toss below , We met the silent shallop That frighted whalers know ; For , down a cruel ice - lane , That opened as he sped , We saw dead Henry Hudson Steer , North ...
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... ; We read of the English sky - lark , Of the spring in the English lanes , But we screamed with the painted lories As we rode on the dusty plains ! They passed with their old - world legends- Their tales 48 THE NATIVE-BORN.
... ; We read of the English sky - lark , Of the spring in the English lanes , But we screamed with the painted lories As we rode on the dusty plains ! They passed with their old - world legends- Their tales 48 THE NATIVE-BORN.
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Rudyard Kipling. They passed with their old - world legends- Their tales of wrong and dearth- Our fathers held by purchase , But we by the right of birth ; Our heart's where they rocked our cradle , Our love where we spent our toil , And ...
Rudyard Kipling. They passed with their old - world legends- Their tales of wrong and dearth- Our fathers held by purchase , But we by the right of birth ; Our heart's where they rocked our cradle , Our love where we spent our toil , And ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 96 - Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, Nor know Thee till I die : Enough for me in dreams to see And touch Thy garments' hem : Thy feet have trod so near to God I may not follow them.
Página 205 - For to admire an' for to see, For to be' old this world so wide^ It never done no good to me, But I can't drop it if I tried!
Página 8 - 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 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.
Página 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!
Página 94 - If wrong we did to call them, By honour bound they came; Let not Thy Wrath befall them. But deal to us the blame. From panic, pride, and terror, Revenge that knows no rein — Light haste and lawless error. Protect us yet again.
Página 9 - The wrecks dissolve above us ; their dust drops down from afar — Down to the dark, to the utter dark, where the blind white sea-snakes are There is no sound, no echo of sound, in the deserts of the deep, Or the great grey level plains of ooze where the shell-burred cables creep.
Página 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!
Página 144 - e might require, 'E went an' took — the same as me ! The market-girls an' fishermen, The shepherds an' the sailors, too, They 'eard old songs turn up again, But kep' it quiet — same as you ! They knew 'e stole; 'e knew they knowed. They didn't tell, nor make a fuss, But winked at 'Omer down the road, An' 'e winked back — the same as us I 144 "BACK TO THE ARMY AGAIN.