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  • Red, White, And Blue
    Sons of the seagirt land,
    Strong round the banner stand
    22 lines, 1 comment
  • Britannia Africana
    Where the Cape frowns out o'er the waters,
        Staunchly she takes her stand,
    25 lines
  • Minden Day
    All morning rang the gardens where grew the roses sweet
    With sound of drum and bugle, and tramp of marching feet;
    13 lines
  • Granfer Scroodle
    Granfer Scroodle,
    Honest soul,
    42 lines
  • Ciudad Rodrigo
        "Who's for the breach?" they said,
    At the chill dark close of a wintry day,
    44 lines
  • The Burial Of General Craufurd At Ciudad Rodrigo
    They laid him down, — the soldier slain in war, —
    Fresh from the midnight flame, the midnight roar,
    34 lines
  • Britannia Triumphans
                         
    I             
    41 lines
  • England In China: 1897-98
    Grey gloom the storm-clouds in the Orient far,
        Foreshadowing dark and anxious hours to be,
    26 lines
  • How We Took The Great Galleon
    Eighty men of Devon stood out to sweep the sea,
        To plough the Spanish Main, my boys, to plough the Spanish Main,
    63 lines
  • The British-Born
    ENGLAND, our England, thou whose sway
    Spreads o'er broad lands and boundless sea,
    25 lines
  • The Colonists
    We have heard a voice that calls us —
        A voice that bids us go —
    26 lines
  • The Song Of The Greatest Isle
    A health to our soldiers and sailors true
        That guard Britannia's throne;
    25 lines
  • The Stand Of Wilson's Patrol
    Beside the Shanghai river,
    Alone with the Veldt and sky,
    40 lines
  • Then And Now
    O FAIR to see, scudding with gull-like motion,
        Or hovering poised on shadowing wings of snow;
    38 lines
  • The Fight Of The Caroline
    It was the good ship Caroline,
    That ploughed the Channel foam,
    88 lines
  • The Bugle-Call
    "Beware! Beware!"
    The shrilling bugles blare.
    19 lines
  • Omdurman
    September 9, 1898
    Glory for these glad tidings, far and near,
    30 lines
  • Our Jubilee Visitors
    IN this moment of our joy and exultation
        From distant lands they come,
    25 lines
  • A Norseman
    Beneath the golden eagle's shade
        Gleam restless eyes of steely grey,
    26 lines
  • The Vanguard
    We the vanguard of a nation in the lands of desolation,
          We who live and die unknown,
    25 lines
  • To Arms
    "To Arms!" the maddening bugles call;
        Make ready-ready for the fray.
    34 lines
  • Our Country
    O England, merry England!
        The whole wide world can show
    23 lines
  • Penmaenmawr
    Betwixt twin forts by nature plann'd
        Slumbers the little drowsy town,
    22 lines, 1 comment
  • Ultima Thule
    The tides roll white and pale
        On a shingly, stormy strand,
    31 lines
  • Songs Of The City
    Hushed is the midnight rush and roar,
      At rest the pulse that all day long
    73 lines, 1 comment
  • A Coral Island
    Girded by wastes of sounding foam,
      Slumbers unseen the fruitful isle;
    47 lines, 1 comment
  • The Four Buglers
    In the high halls of morning,
      Where the red dawnlights glow,
    33 lines
  • His Going Forth Is From The End Of Heaven
    Over hill and valley, flame, O king of morning,
      Before thee in thy glory the hoary vapours scud,
    13 lines
  • Lords Of The Sea
    Great captains of the bygone days, —
      Whose spirits 'mid our spirits lurk, —
    38 lines
  • Calm Before Storm
    There is silence on yon fair valley,
        And calm on yon purple hill:
    24 lines
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