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Rudyard Kipling
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(1865-1936)
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"Angutivaun Taina"
Our gloves are stiff with the frozen blood,
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"Back To The Army Again
I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at,
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"Birds Of Prey March"
March! The mud is cakin' good about our trousies.
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"Cleared"
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt,
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"Follow Me 'Ome"
There was no one like 'im, 'Orse or Foot,
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"Fuzzy-Wuzzy"
We've fought with many men acrost the seas,
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"Mary, Pity Women!"
You call yourself a man,
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"Snarleyow"
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps
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"Soldier An' Sailor Too"
As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the ~Crocodile~,
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"The Men That Fought At Minden"
The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time --
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A Ballad of Burial
If down here I chance to die,
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A Ballad of Jakko Hill
One moment bid the horses wait,
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A Pilgrim's Way
I do not look for holy saints to guide me on my way,
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A Song Of The English
Fair is our lot -- O goodly is our heritage!
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A Song of the English
Fair is our lot -- O goodly is our heritage!
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An American
"If the Led Striker call it a strike,
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An Astrologer's Song
To the Heavens above us
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An Imperial Rescript
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed,
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Anchor Song
Heh! Walk her round. Heave, ah heave her short again!
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Arithmetic on the Frontier
A great and glorious thing it is
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Army Headquarters
Old is the song that I sing --
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Arterial
Frost upon small rain--the ebony-lacquered avenue
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As the Bell Clinks
As I left the Halls at Lumley, rose the vision of a comely
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At His Execution
I am made all things to all men--
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Azrael's Count
Lo! The Wild Cow of the Desert, her yeanling estrayed from her --
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Banquet Night
"ONCE in so often," King Solomon said,
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Barrack-Room Ballads
When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre,
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Belts
There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay,
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Bill 'Awkins
"'As anybody seen Bill 'Awkins?"
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Boots
We're foot--slog--slog--slog--sloggin' over Africa --
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Buddha at Kamakura
Oye who treated the Narrow Way
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Cells
I've a head like a concertina: I've a tongue like a button-stick:
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Cholera Camp
We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights;
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Danny Deever
"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
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England's Answer
Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban;
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Evarra And His Gods
This is the story of Evarra -- man --
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For To Admire
The Injian Ocean sets an' smiles
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Ford O' Kabul River
Kabul town's by Kabul river --
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Gentlemen-Rankers
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned,
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Gunga Din
You may talk o' gin and beer
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Hymn Before Action
The earth is full of anger,
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If
If you can keep your head when all about you
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Imperious wool-booted sage
Imperious wool-booted sage
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In The Neolithic Age
In the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage
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L'envoi
There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield,
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L'Envoi
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried,
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L'envoi To "Life's Handicap"
My new-cut ashlar takes the light
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Loot
If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back,
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Mandalay
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,
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McAndrew's Hymn
Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream,
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Mulholland's Contract
The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea,
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Oonts
Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire?
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Route Marchin'
We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains,
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Sappers
When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear,
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Screw-Guns
Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool,
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Sestina Of The Tramp-Royal
Speakin' in general, I 'ave tried 'em all,
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Shillin' A Day
My name is O'Kelly, I've heard the Revelly
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Soldier, Soldier
"Soldier, soldier come from the wars,
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That Day
It got beyond all orders an' it got beyond all 'ope;
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The "Mary Gloster"
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim --
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The 'Eathen
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone;
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The Advertisement
Whether to wend through straight streets strictly,
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The American Rebellion
Twas not while England's sword unsheathed
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The Answer
A Rose, in tatters on the garden path,
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The Anvil
England's on the anvil--hear the hammers ring--
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The Ballad Of Boh Da Thone
This is the ballad of Boh Da Thone,
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The Ballad of Bolivar
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again,
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The Ballad Of East And West
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
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The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House
That night, when through the mooring-chains
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The Ballad Of The "Clampherdown"
It was our war-ship Clampherdown
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The Ballad Of The King's Jest
When spring-time flushes the desert grass,
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The Ballad Of The King's Mercy
Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told.
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The Betrothed
Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout,
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The Broken Men
For things we never mention,
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The Coastwise Lights
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees;
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The Conundrum Of The Workshops
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,
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The Deep-Sea Cables
The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar --
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The Derelict
I was the staunchest of our fleet
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The English Flag
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack,
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The Explanation
Love and Death once ceased their strife
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The Female of the Species
When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
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The First Chantey
Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her;
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The Flowers
Buy my English posies!
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The Gift Of The Sea
The dead child lay in the shroud,
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The Gods Of The Copybook Headings
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
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The Jacket
Through the Plagues of Egyp' we was chasin' Arabi,
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The King
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said;
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The Ladies
I've taken my fun where I've found it;
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The Lament of the Border Cattle Thief
O woe is me for the merry life
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The Last Chantey
Thus said The Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim
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The Last Rhyme Of True Thomas
The King has called for priest and cup,
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The Last Shuttee
Udai Chand lay sick to death
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The Legend Of Evil
This is the sorrowful story
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The Liner She's A Lady
The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds --
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The Lost Legion
There's a Legion that never was 'listed,
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The Merchantmen
King Solomon drew merchantmen,
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The Miracles
I sent a message to my dear --
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The Mother-Lodge
There was Rundle, Station Master,
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The Native-Born
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! --
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The Power of the Dog
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
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The Rhyme Of The Three Captains
. . . At the close of a winter day,
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The Rhyme Of The Three Sealers
Away by the lands of the Japanee
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The Sacrifice Of Er-Heb
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai
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The Sea-Wife
There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate,
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The Sergeant's Weddin'
'E was warned agin' 'er --
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The Shut-Eye Sentry
Sez the Junior Orderly Sergeant
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The Song Of The Banjo
You couldn't pack a Broadwood half a mile --
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The Song OF The Cities
Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen
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The Song Of The Dead
Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges --
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The Song of the Little Hunter
Ere Mor the Peacock flutters, ere the Monkey People cry,
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The Song of the Old Guard
Know this, my brethren, Heaven is clear
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The Song OF The Sons
One from the ends of the earth -- gifts at an open door --
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The Song of the Women
How shall she know the worship we would do her?
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The Songs of the Lathes
The fans and the beltings they roar round me.
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The Sons of Martha
The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part;
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The Spies' March
There are not leaders to lead us to honour, and yet without leaders we sally,
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The Story Of Ung
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago,
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The Story of Uriah
Jack Barrett went to Quetta
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The Stranger
The Stranger within my gate,
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The Survival
The Survival
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The Thorkild's Song
There's no wind along these seas,
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The Thousandth Man
One man in a thousand, Solomon says,
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The Three-Decker
Full thirty foot she towered from waterline to rail.
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The Threshold
In their deepest caverns of limestone
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The Totem
Ere the mother's milk had dried
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The Tour
Thirteen as twelve my Murray always took--
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The Truce of the Bear
Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go
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The Two-Sided Man
Much I owe to the Lands that grew--
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The Undertaker's Horse
The eldest son bestrides him,
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The Vampire
A fool there was and he made his prayer
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The Verdicts
Not in the thick of the fight,
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The Veterans
To-day, across our fathers' graves,
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The Vineyard
At the eleventh hour he came,
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The Virginity
Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose
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The Wage-Slaves
Oh, glorious are the guarded heights
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The Way Through the Woods
They shut the road through the woods
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The Wet Litany
When the waters' countenance
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The White Man's Burden
Take up the White man's burden --
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The Widow At Windsor
'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor
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The Widow's Party
"Where have you been this while away,
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The Widower
For a season there must be pain--
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The Winners
What the moral? Who rides may read.
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The Wishing-Caps
Life's all getting and giving,
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The Young British Soldier
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East
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Things and the Man
Oh ye who hold the written clue
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To a Lady, Persuading Her to a Car
Love's fiery chariot, Delia, take
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To James Whitcomb Riley
Your trail runs to the westward,
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To Motorists
Since ye distemper and defile
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To T. A.
I have made for you a song,
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To The City Of Bombay
The Cities are full of pride,
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To the Companions
How comes it that, at even-tide,
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To The True Romance
Thy face is far from this our war,
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To the Unknown Goddess
Will you conquer my heart with your beauty; my sould going out from afar?
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To Thomas Atkins
I have made for you a song
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To Wolcott Balestier
Beyond the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled --
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Tomlinson
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square,
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Tommy
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,
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Troopin'
Troopin', troopin', troopin' to the sea:
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Two Kopjes
Only two African kopjes,
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Two Months
No hope, no change! The clouds have shut us in,
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Ulster
The dark eleventh hour
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Untimely
Nothing in life has been made by man for man's using
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We and They
Father and Mother, and Me,
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What Happened
Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, pride of Bow Bazaar,
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What the People Said
By the well, where the bullocks go
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When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted
When Earth's last picture is painted
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White Horses
Where run your colts at pasture?
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Wilful Missing
There is a world outside the one you know,
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With Drake in the Tropics
South and far south below the Line,
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With Scindia To Delhi
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi,
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Zion
The Doorkeepers of Zion,
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