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Ahasuerus Jenkins Anne of Austria BALLAD be'ind belts beneath best go look bloomin Boanerges Blitzen Boffkin boys Burma called dance Danny Deever dawn dead Delilah Devil ditty drink ere's eyes fight Files-on-Parade Fisher's boarding-house fool Fuzzy-Wuzzy galley Gauri Gods in lands goin gold Gunga Gunga Din guns hangin head heart India Jack Barrett Jakko Hill King knew Kolazai light loot Lord love the screw-guns Maggie mock Nathan Haskell Dole never o'er old sake's sake oont Pagett Poor beggars Potiphar Potiphar Gubbins praised Quetta road to Mandalay row in Silver Rudyard Kipling Shikaris Simla sing Skipper Sleary soul story of Evarra Subadar Prag Tewarri swore T. Y. CROWELL talk Tara Devi thee There's to-day toil told Tommy tonga-bar toot TROOPIN true love Ulysses Undertaker's Horse village watched Widow at Windsor wife young British soldier
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Страница 231 - If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe — Such boasting as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law — Lord God of hosts, be with us yet, Lest wo forget — lest we forget!
Страница 52 - There were two men in one city ; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up : and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him...
Страница 25 - er arm upon my shoulder an' 'er cheek agin' my cheek We useter watch the steamers an' the hathis pilin' teak. Elephints a-pilin' teak In the sludgy, squdgy creek, Where the silence 'ung that 'eavy you was 'arf afraid to speak!
Страница 230 - The tumult and the shouting dies — The captains and the kings depart — Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart.
Страница 24 - BY the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the templebells they say : " Come you back, you British soldier ; come you back to Mandalay!
Страница 193 - Open the old cigar-box — let me consider anew — Old friends, and who is Maggie that I should abandon you ? A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke; And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke.
Страница xi - Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play, The regiment's in 'ollow square — they're hangin' him to-day; They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away, An' they're hangin
Страница 19 - You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it, Now in Injia's sunny clime, Where I used to spend my time A-servin...
Страница xix - WE'VE fought with many men acrost the seas, An' some of 'em was brave an' some was not: The Paythan an' the Zulu an' Burmese; But the Fuzzy was the finest o
Страница xx - ills, The Boers knocked us silly at a mile, The Burman give us Irriwaddy chills, An' a Zulu impi dished us up in style: But all we ever got from such as they Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller; We 'eld our bloomin' own, the papers say, But man for man the Fuzzy knocked us 'oiler.