Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-room BalladsDoubleday & McClure, 1899 - 384 стор. |
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Anne of Austria Babu BALLAD be'ind beneath bloomin Boh Da Thone breath called Captain Clampherdown Colonel's curse Danny Deever dark dawn dead dear Death Delhi town Devil Earth Er-Heb ere's eyes face fell fire Flag of England flame fled ford galley Gauri Gods Gunga Din guns hand hath head heard heart Heaven hold honour horse Jack Barrett Jane Austen jezail Johnnie Kabul river Kamal King knew knife Lalun light look loot Lord Maggie maid Mandalay mare Mashobra mist never night North o'er old sake's sake oont Peshawur plain Potiphar Queen rain ride road Scindia shame silver Simla sing skipper smoke soldier soul sword tale Taman Tara Devi thee There's thou thrice to-day Tomlinson Tommy tonga-bar trail turn twain Twas village wait watched wheel whisper Widow at Windsor wife wind young
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Сторінка 7 - 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; 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 143 - 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 139 - is beer a score o' times,' said Files-onParade. ' '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 6 - They have looked each other between the eyes, and there they found no fault, They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on leavened bread and salt: They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on fire and fresh-cut sod, On the hilt and the haft of the Khyber knife, and the Wondrous Names of God. The Colonel's son he rides the mare and Kamal's boy the dun, And two have come back to Fort Bukloh where there went forth but one. And when they drew to the Quarter-Guard, full twenty swords flew...
Сторінка 1 - 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 103 - A million surplus Maggies are willing to bear the yoke; And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke.
Сторінка 185 - Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an...
Сторінка 141 - Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's yer soul?" But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll — The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes...
Сторінка 183 - 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