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THE SONG OF THE CITIES.
Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen,
ENGLAND'S ANSWER
Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban,
THE FIRST CHANTEY
Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her,
Thus said The Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim,
THE MERCHANTMEN .
King Solomon drew merchantmen,
M'ANDREW'S HYMN
Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream,
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."
THE LAST RHYME OF TRUE THOMAS .
The king has called for priest and cup,
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,
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,
"BIRDS OF PREY" MARCH .
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March! The mud is cakin' good about our trousies,
As I was spitting into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile,
When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear,
THAT DAY
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,
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,
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When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
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