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THE Injian Ocean sets an’ smiles So sof’, so bright, so bloomin’ bl… There aren’t a wave for miles an’… Excep’ the jiggle from the screw. The ship is swep’, the day is done…
WHEN the Great Ark, in Vigo Ba… Rode stately through the half—mann… From every ship about her way She heard the mariners entreat— “Before we take the seas again
WE HAVE no heart for the fishin… All that our fathers taught us of… All that our own hearts bid us bel… There is no proof in the bread we… Look you, our foreshore stretches…
IN the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and th...
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
Unto whose use the pregnant suns a… With idiot moons and stars retract… Creep thou between —thy coming’s a… Heaven hath her high, as Earth he… Heir to these tumults, this affrig…
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…
GOD gave all men all earth to lov… But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should… Belovèd over all; That, as He watched Creation’s bi…
’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,
IF down here I chance to die, Solemnly I beg you take All that is left of “I” To the Hills for old sake’s sake, Pack me very thoroughly
I WILL let loose against you the… I will call in the Jungle to stam… The roofs shall fade before it, The house—beams shall fall; And the Karela, the bitter Karela…
Yearly, with tent and rifle, our c… By the Pass called Muttianee, to… Yearly by Muttianee he follows ou… Matun, the old blind beggar, banda… Eyeless, noseless, and lipless —to…
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,
The Doorkeepers of Zion, They do not always stand In helmet and whole armour, With halberds in their hand; But, being sure of Zion,
EDDI, priest of St. Wilfrid In his chapel at Manhood End, Ordered a midnight service For such as cared to attend. But the Saxons were keeping Chris…