Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and k… Nor know Thee till I die. Enough for me in dreams to see

WHEN all the world would keep a… Since Truth is seldom friend to a… Men write in fable, as old Æsop di… Jesting at that which none will na… And this they needs must do, or it…

A WANDERER from East to West, From Mandalay to Matheran, By itch of loaferdom possess, I scour the plains of Hindustan. Dismissed the fragrant, gariwân, (…

HIS spots are the joy of the Leo… Be clean, for the strength of the… If ye find that the Bullock can t… Ye need not stop work to inform us… Oppress not the cubs of the strang…

CITIES and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die: But, as new buds put forth

OH, glorious are the guarded heig… Where guardian souls abide— Self—exiled from our gross delight… Above, beyond, outside: An ampler arc their spirit swings—

WE’RE not so old in the Army Li… But we’re not so young at our trad… For we had the honour at Fontenoy Of meeting the Guards’ Brigade. 'Twas Lally, Dillon, Bulkeley, C…

THERE’s a little red—faced man, Which is Bobs, Rides the tallest ‘orse ’e can— Our Bobs. If it bucks or kicks or rears,

THE ROAD to En—dor is easy to… For Mother or yearning Wife. There, it is sure, we shall meet o… As they were even in life. Earth has not dreamed of the bless…

SOUTH and far south below the L… Our Admiral leads us on, Above, undreamed—of planets shine… The stars we know are gone. Around, our clustered seamen mark

WHEN the waters’ countenance Blurs ‘twixt glance and second gla… When our tattered smokes forerun Ashen ’neath a silvered sun; When the curtain of the haze

I am made all things to all men— Hebrew, Roman, and Greek— In each one’s tongue I speak, Suiting to each my word, That some may be drawn to the Lor…

“My son,” said the Norman Baron,… be heir To all the broad acres in England… share When he conquered the Saxon at Ha…

A Snider squibbed in the jungle, Somebody laughed and fled, And the men of the First Shikaris Picked up their Subaltern dead, With a big blue mark in his forehe…