(Mat. Prior)
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WHERE first by Eden Tree The Four Great Rivers ran, To each was appointed a Man Her Prince and Ruler to be. But after this was ordained
NOW this is the tale of the Coun… To ease the strong of their burden… He sent a word to the peoples, who… That the straw might be counted fa… The Lords of Their Hands assembl…
IT IS always a temptation to an… To call upon a neighbour and to sa… “We invaded you last night– we are… Unless you pay us cash to go away.… And that is called asking for Dan…
The Babe was laid in the Manger Between the gentle kine — All safe from cold and danger — "But it was not so with mine, (With mine! With mine!)
Like Princes crowned they bore… Like Demi-Gods they wrought, When the New World lay before the… In headlong fact and thought. Fate and their foemen proved them
WHO recalls the twilight and the… (Violet peaks uplifted through the… And the clink of iron teacups and… And the faces of the Sisters with… (Now and not hereafter, while the…
OH GALLANT was our galley from… To her figurehead of silver and he… The leg—bar chafed the ankle and w… But no galley on the waters with o… Our bulkheads bulged with cotton a…
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…
The men that fought at Minden, th… So was them that fought at Waterl… All the 'ole command, yuss, from… They was once dam’ sweeps like you… Then do not be discouraged, ‘Eave…
THERE is a word you often see, p… “You bike,” “you bykwee,” “ubbikwe… It serves ’Orse, Field, an’ Garr… An’ when you’ve found out all it m… Ubique means the long—range Krupp…
THE white moth to the closing bin… The bee to the opened clover, And the gipsy blood to the gipsy b… Ever the wide world over. Ever the wide world over, lass,
AS our mother the Frigate, bepain… Made play for her bully the Ship… So we, her bold daughters by iron… Accost and destroy to our masters’… For this is our virtue —to spy and…
AFTER the burial—parties leave And the baffled kites have fled; The wise hyænas come out at eve To take account of our dead. How he died and why he died
THE MIRACLE of our land’s spe… And long received, none marvel whe… We have such wealth as Rome at he… Had not or (having) scattered not… Nor with such arrant prodigality,
We’ve drunk to the Queen —God ble… We’ve drunk to our mothers’ land; We’ve drunk to our English brothe… (But he does not understand); We’ve drunk to the wide creation,