Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-room BalladsDoubleday, Page for Review of Reviews Company, 1899 - 217 стор. |
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Anne of Austria Babu BALLAD BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS beneath Boh Da Thone bowed breast breath called Captain cattle Colonel's curse Danny Deever dark dawn dead dear Death Delhi town Devil Earth Er-Heb Evarra eyes face feet fell fire Flag Flag of England flame fled ford galley Gauri Gods Gunga Din guns hand hath head heard heart Heaven hold honour Jane Austen jezail Kabul river Kamal King knew knife Lalun light look loot Lord Maggie maid mare Mashobra mist never night North o'er oont Pagett Peshawur plain Potiphar Priests Queen Red Horse ride road Scindia shame Shrine Simla sing skipper smoke soldier soul sword tale Taman Tara Devi thee There's thou to-day toil Tomlinson tonga-bar Tongue of Jagai trail turn twain Twas village wait war-ship Clampherdown watched Widow at Windsor wind young
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Сторінка 145 - is beer a score o' times," said Files-on-Parade. '"E's drinkin' bitter beer alone," the Colour-Sergeant said. They are hangin' Danny Deever, you must mark 'im to 'is place, For 'e shot a comrade sleepin'— you must look 'im in the face; Nine 'undred of 'is county an' the regiment's disgrace, While they're hangin
Сторінка 190 - Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old Flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay? On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
Сторінка 149 - For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!' But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot; An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please; An' Tommy ain'ta bloomin' fool — you bet that Tommy sees!
Сторінка 5 - The Colonel's son to the Fort has won, they bid him stay to eat — Who rides at the tail of a Border thief, he sits not long at his meat.
Сторінка 11 - Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat...
Сторінка 3 - Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Сторінка 193 - Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an...
Сторінка 191 - When the mist was on the rice-fields an' the sun was droppin' slow, She'd git 'er little banjo an' she'd sing 'Kulla-lo-lo!' With 'er arm upon my shoulder an' 'er cheek agin my cheek We useter watch the steamers an' the hathis pilin
Сторінка 191 - I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot, An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot: Bloomin' idol made o' mud Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed 'er where she stud! On the road to Mandalay . . . When the mist was on the rice-fields an
Сторінка 150 - 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