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Naked and grey the Cotswolds stan… Beneath the autumn sun, And the stubble—fields on either h… Where Stour and Avon run. There is no change in the patient…
ALL day long to the judgment—seat The crazed Provincials drew — All day long at their ruler’s feet Howled for the blood of the Jew. Insurrection with one accord
There are three degrees of bliss At the foot of Allah’s Throne, And the highest place is his Who saves a brother’s soul At peril of his own.
MY father’s father saw it not, And I, belike, shall never come To look on that so—holy spot – That very Rome— Crowned by all Time, all Art, all…
IN A land that the sand overlays—… A multitude ended their days whose… Till they grew drunk and were smit… And of these is a story written: b… When the wine stirred in their hea…
NOW the new year reviving old des… The restless soul to open sea aspi… Where the Blue Peter flickers fro… And the grimed stoker feeds the en… Coupons, alas, depart with all the…
Once on a time was a King anxious… What was the wisest thing a man co… Most of his population hurried to… Each with a long oration, each wit… They interrupted his meals —he was…
THE ‘eathen in ’is blindness bows… 'E don’t obey no orders unless the… ‘E keeps ’is side—arms awful: ‘e l… An’ then comes up the Regiment an… All along o’ dirtiness, all along…
"GO WASH thyself in Jordan —go,… Nay, not for any Prophet will I p… For the banks of curious Jordan a… Commanded and embellished and patr… There rise her timeless capitals o…
Offshore where sea and skyline ble… In rain, the daylight dies; The sullen, shouldering swells att… Night and our sacrifice. Adown the stricken capes no flare—
HARRY, our King in England, fr… And comen to Hamull on the Hoke i… For there lay the Mary of the Tow… And he would discover, certaynely,… He told not none of his setting fo…
BEYOND the path of the outmost… 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…
WHEN the cabin port—holes are da… Because of the seas outside; When the ship goes wop (with a wig… And the steward falls into the sou… And the trunks begin to slide;
Pagett, M.P., was a liar, and a f… He spoke of the heat of India as… Came on a four months’ visit, to “… And I got him to sign an agreemen… March came in with the koil. Page…
YOU mustn’t groom an Arab with a… You hadn’t ought to tension—spring… You couldn’t push a brumby fifty m… And drop him in a boiler—shed to c… I’ll sling you through six countie…