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Book: Ballads

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  • Cargoes
    Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,
    Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
    16 lines, 26 comments
  • Captain Stratton’s Fancy
    Oh some are fond of red wine, and some are fond of white,
    And some are all for dancing by the pale moonlight:
    33 lines, 1 comment
  • The Seekers
    Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth nor blessed abode,
    But the hope of the City of God at the other end of the road.
    18 lines
  • A Creed
    I hold that when a person dies
    His soul returns again to earth;
    42 lines, 2 comments
  • Tewkesbury Road
    It is good to be out on the road, and going one knows not where,
    Going through meadow and village, one knows not whither or why;
    12 lines
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