Of all the trees that grow so fair… Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn. Sing Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, go…

Over the edge of the purple down, Where the single lamplight gleams, Know ye the road to the Merciful… That is hard by the Sea of Dreams… Where the poor may lay their wrong…

“OH, where are you going to, all… With England’s own coal, up and d… “We are going to fetch you your br… Your beef, pork, and mutton, eggs,… “And where will you fetch it from,…

Beyond the path of the outmost sun… Further than ever comet flared or… Live such as fought and sailed and… They are purged of pride because t… They sit at wine with the Maidens…

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…

’TWAS Fultah Fisher’s boarding—… Where sailor-men reside, And there were men of all the port… From Mississip to Clyde, And regally they spat and smoked,

LONG years ago, ere R—lls or R—… Trebled the mileage man could cove… When Sh—nks’s Mare was H—bs—n’s… And Bl—r—ot had not flown to Dove… When good hoteliers looked askance

Who gives him the Bath? “I,” said the wet, Rank-Jungle-sweat, “I’ll give him the Bath!” Who’ll sing the psalms?

That which is marred at birth Tim… Nor water out of bitter well make… All evil thing returneth at the en… Or elseway walketh in our blood un… Whereby the more is sorrow in cert…

BEES! BEES! Hark to your bees! “Hide from your neighbours as much… But all that has happened, to us y… Or else we will give you no honey… A maiden in her glory,

This was originally written for th… “St. James’s Gazette” as a delibe… skit on a letter by a corresponden… who seemed to believe that naval warfare of the future would be