The Seven SeasD. Appleton and Company, 1905 - 209 páginas |
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... watch the ships of England go ! Through the endless summer evenings , on the line- less , level floors ; Through the yelling Channel tempest when the syren hoots and roars- By day the dipping house - flag and by night the rocket's trail ...
... watch the ships of England go ! Through the endless summer evenings , on the line- less , level floors ; Through the yelling Channel tempest when the syren hoots and roars- By day the dipping house - flag and by night the rocket's trail ...
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... watch my silk - clad lovers , man by maid , Laugh ' neath my Shwe Dagon . Singapore . Hail , Mother ! East and West must seek my aid Ere the spent gear shall dare the ports afar . The second doorway of the wide world's trade Is mine to ...
... watch my silk - clad lovers , man by maid , Laugh ' neath my Shwe Dagon . Singapore . Hail , Mother ! East and West must seek my aid Ere the spent gear shall dare the ports afar . The second doorway of the wide world's trade Is mine to ...
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... watch and ward to keep O'er Thy wonders on the deep , And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea ! " Loud sang the souls of the jolly , jolly mariners : " Nay , but we were angry , and a hasty folk are we ! If we worked the ...
... watch and ward to keep O'er Thy wonders on the deep , And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea ! " Loud sang the souls of the jolly , jolly mariners : " Nay , but we were angry , and a hasty folk are we ! If we worked the ...
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... watch up here - alone wi ' God an ' these My engines , after ninety days o ' race an ' rack an ' strain Through all the seas of all Thy world , slam - bang- in ' home again . Slam - bang too much - they knock a wee 31 ANDREW'S HYMN.
... watch up here - alone wi ' God an ' these My engines , after ninety days o ' race an ' rack an ' strain Through all the seas of all Thy world , slam - bang- in ' home again . Slam - bang too much - they knock a wee 31 ANDREW'S HYMN.
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... . The ten- der's comin ' now . " While I go testin ' follower - bolts an ' watch the skipper bow . They've words for everyone but me - shake hands wi ' half the crew , Except the dour Scots engineer , the man they never 39.
... . The ten- der's comin ' now . " While I go testin ' follower - bolts an ' watch the skipper bow . They've words for everyone but me - shake hands wi ' half the crew , Except the dour Scots engineer , the man they never 39.
Términos y frases comunes
acrost ain't Army Baltic BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS barrick be'ind beggar beneath Bill Awkins blind blood bloomin blow blue Buy my English Captain Cheer clear dead deaths a day deep drunk eathen English posies eyes fight fought fought at Minden gale Gawd give Gloster guns Hail hand harp harpit hast hear heart jolly keep King kiss knew lady land learned about women learnin lift Lord Man-o'-War's er usband Mary Mother Carey naked neath never night Northern Light o'er Orse-Gunners pity women port price of admiralty pride Reuben Paine road roar Romance round Royal Engineer Rudyard Kipling sail sailor Sapper sergeant SESTINA she's a lady ship sing skin smoke soldiers song stand stood Stralsund talk Thee There's things Thou thousand Tom Hall True Thomas turn Twas wait watch wind word Ye'll
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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.