Files The Files, Office Files ! Oblige me by referring to the Files. Every question man can raise, Every phrase of every phrase Of that question is on record in the Files,...
Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her: Haling her dumb from the camp, held her and bound her. Hot rose her tribe on our track ere I had proved her; Hearing her laugh in the gloom, greatly I loved her....
When the grey geese heard the Fool's tread Too near to where they lay, They lifted neither voice nor head, But took themselves away. No water broke, no pinion whirred, There went no warning call....
The rain it rains without a stay In the hills above us, in the hills; And presently the floods break way Whose strength is in the hills. The trees they suck from every cloud,...
Buy my English posies! Kent and Surrey may, Violets of the Undercliff Wet with Channel spray; Cowslips from a Devon combe, Midland furze afire, Buy my English posies...
As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree The Angel of the Earth came down, and offered Earth in fee; But Adam did not need it, Nor the plough he would not speed it,...
The boats of Newhaven and Folkestone and Dover To Dieppe and Boulogne and to Calais cross over; And in each of those runs there is not a square yard Where the English and French haven't fought and fought hard!...
I had some friends, but I dreamed that they were dead, Who used to dance with lanterns round a little boy in bed; Green and white lanterns that waved to and fro:...
Rajah of Kolazai, Drinketh the "simpkin" and brandy peg, Maketh the money to fly, Vexeth a Government, tender and kind, Also, but this is a detail, blind.
So we settled it all when the storm was done As comfy as comfy could be; And I was to wait in the barn, my dears, Because I was only three. And Teddy would run to the rainbow's foot...
The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time, So was them that fought at Waterloo! All the 'ole command, yuss, from Minden to Maiwand,...
We now, held in captivity, Spring to our bondage nor grieve, See now, how it is blesseder, Brothers, to give than receive! Keep trust, wherefore we were made, Paying the debt that we owe;...
There were three friends that buried the fourth, The mould in his mouth and the dust in his eyes, And they went south and east and north, The strong man fights but the sick man dies. ...