#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
I have made for you a song, And it may be right or wrong, But only you can tell me if it’s t… I have tried for to explain Both your pleasure and your pain,
FOR all we have and are, For all our children’s fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate! Our world has passed away
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…
HE THAT hath a Gospel To loose upon Mankind, Though he serve it utterly — Body, soul and mind — Though he go to Calvary
0h, East is East, and West is We… Till Earth and Sky stand presentl… But there is neither East nor Wes… When two strong men stand face to… Kamal is out with twenty men to ra…
BEYOND the path of the outmost… Further than ever comet flared or… Live such as sailed and fought and… They are purged of pride because t… They sit at wine with the Maidens…
O YE who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet—flare to judgment Day, Be gentle when “the heathen” pray To Buddha at Kamakura! To him the Way, the Law, apart,
THESE were my companions going f… (For Chil! Look you, for Chil!) Now come I to whistle them the en… (Chil! Vanguards of Chil!) Word they gave me overhead of quar…
I have made for you a song And it may be right or wrong, But only you can tell me if it’s t… I have tried for to explain Both your pleasure and your pain,
FOR things we never mention, For Art misunderstood — For excellent intention That did not turn to good; From ancient tales’ renewing,
At the eleventh hour he came, But his wages were the same As ours who all day long had trod The wine—press of the Wrath of Go… When he shouldered through the lin…
Moralists we, From over the sea, From the land where philosophers p… From the land that produced no Ka… But many Cants with a C.
I know not in Whose hands are lai… To empty upon earth From unsuspected ambuscade The very Urns of Mirth; Who bids the Heavenly Lark arise
WHETHER the State can loose an… In Heaven as well as on Earth: If it be wiser to kill mankind Before or after the birth— These are matters of high concern
EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE A. “I was a Have.” B. “I was a ‘… (Together.) “What hast thou given… A SERVANT We were together since the War be…