Songs from BooksPreface: I have collected in this volume practically all the verses and chapter-headings scattered through my books, with the exception of the Jungle Books and the Just So Stoires. In several cases where only a few lines of verse were originally used I have given in full the song, etc., from which they were taken. |
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... holds them in trust , Until the Judgment Day . Their soul went from them in their youth , Ah God , that mine had gone , Whenas I leaned on my love's truth And not on my sword alone ! Whenas I leaned on lad's belief And not on my 19.
... holds them in trust , Until the Judgment Day . Their soul went from them in their youth , Ah God , that mine had gone , Whenas I leaned on my love's truth And not on my sword alone ! Whenas I leaned on lad's belief And not on my 19.
Page 34
... hold . ' " " " Nay ! " said the Baron , kneeling in his hall , " But Iron - Cold Iron - is master of man all ! Iron out of Calvary is master of men all ! " A CAROL Our Lord Who did the Ox command To 34 SONGS FROM BOOKS.
... hold . ' " " " Nay ! " said the Baron , kneeling in his hall , " But Iron - Cold Iron - is master of man all ! Iron out of Calvary is master of men all ! " A CAROL Our Lord Who did the Ox command To 34 SONGS FROM BOOKS.
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... know what his Master can do ! ) Open the gate , he must enter in state , " Tis the Dreamer whose dreams come true ! I'd not give way for an Emperor , I'd hold my road for a King - To the Triple Crown I would not bow down — 42.
... know what his Master can do ! ) Open the gate , he must enter in state , " Tis the Dreamer whose dreams come true ! I'd not give way for an Emperor , I'd hold my road for a King - To the Triple Crown I would not bow down — 42.
Page 48
... hold you - Out on the rocks where the tide has rolled you . Yet , when the signs of summer thicken , And the ice breaks , and the birch - buds quicken , Yearly you turn from our side , and sicken - Sicken again for the shouts and the ...
... hold you - Out on the rocks where the tide has rolled you . Yet , when the signs of summer thicken , And the ice breaks , and the birch - buds quicken , Yearly you turn from our side , and sicken - Sicken again for the shouts and the ...
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... hold ' em in scorn . When Prophets are naughty and young and vain , They make a won'erful grievance of it . ( You can see by their writings how they com- plain ) , But O , ' tis won'erful good for the Prophet ! There's nothing Nineveh ...
... hold ' em in scorn . When Prophets are naughty and young and vain , They make a won'erful grievance of it . ( You can see by their writings how they com- plain ) , But O , ' tis won'erful good for the Prophet ! There's nothing Nineveh ...
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Page 119 - If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too...
Page 120 - And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!
Page 48 - You forget our mirth, and talk at the tables, The kine in the shed and the horse in the stables To pitch her sides and go over her cables! Then you drive out where the storm-clouds swallow: And the sound of your oar-blades falling hollow Is all we have left through the months to follow. Ah, what is a Woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
Page 80 - T"*HE Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk — I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind. The men of my own stock They may do ill or well, But they tell the lies I am wonted to, They are used to the lies I tell. And we do not need interpreters When we go to buy and sell.
Page 213 - Five and twenty ponies Trotting through the dark Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk; Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
Page 32 - Gold is for the mistress — silver for the maid — Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade. " "Good!" said the Baron, sitting in his hall, "But Iron — Cold Iron — is master of them all.
Page 119 - em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is...
Page 23 - But — we have been out in the woods all night A-conjuring Summer in! And we bring you news by word of mouth — Good news for cattle and corn — Now is the Sun come up from the South, With Oak, and Ash, and Thorn!
Page 120 - If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: " Hold on! " If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds...