#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
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…
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…
MY GARDEN blazes brightly with… And the köil sings above it, in th… From the creeper—covered trellis c… And the blue jay screams and flutt… But the rose has lost its fragranc…
Brethren, how shall it fare with m… When the war is laid aside, If it be proven that I am he For whom a world has died? If it be proven that all my good,
Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, pride o… Owner of a native press, “Barrish… Waited on the Government with a c… Sabres by the bucketful, rifles by… Then the Indian Government winked…
I HAD some friends—but I dreamed… Who used to dance with lanterns ro… Green and white lanterns that wave… But I haven’t seen a Firefly sinc… I had some friends—their crowns we…
Now Jones had left his new—wed br… And hied away to the Hurrum Hills… To sit on a rock with a heliograph… His wife the working of the Code… And Love had made him very sage,…
A much-discerning Public hold The Singer generally sings And prints and sells his past for… Whatever I may here disclaim, The very clever folk I sing to
Old Mother Laidinwool had nigh tw… She heard the hops was doing well,… For said she: “The lads I’ve… They’re bound to be at hopping an… Let me up and go
THE RAIN it rains without a sta… In the hills above us, in the hill… And presently the floods break way Whose strength is in the hills. The trees they suck from every clo…
WE’ RE foot—slog—slog—slog—slogg… Foot—foot—foot—foot—sloggin’ over… (Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up… There’s no discharge in the war! Seven—six—eleven—five—nine—an’—twe…
I WAS the staunchest of our flee… Till the sea rose beneath our feet Unheralded, in hatred past all mea… Into his pits he stamped my crew, Buffeted, blinded, bound and threw…
Where Horse and Rider each can tr… It takes a fence and more than a f… For the one will do what the other… and blown, And when it is done, they can live…
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
JACK BARRETT went to Quetta Because they told him to. He left his wife at Simla On three-fourths his monthly screw… Jack Barrett died at Quetta