Mine-Sweepers Lyrics

I There runs a road by Merrow Down-- A grassy track to-day it is-- An hour out Guildford town, Above the river Wey it is. Here, when they heard the hors-bells ring, The a...Read Full Lyrics

They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young, The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave: But the men who left them thriftily to die in their own dung, Shall they come wit...Read Full Lyrics

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned i...Read Full Lyrics

Now Chil the Kite brings home the night That Mang the Bat sets free-- The herds are shut in byre and hut, For loosed till dawn are we. This is the hour of pride and power, Tal...Read Full Lyrics

The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea, An' the pens broke up on the lower deck an' let the creatures free -- An' the lights went out on the lower deck, an' no o...Read Full Lyrics

'Have you news of my boy Jack? ' Not this tide. 'When d'you think that he'll come back? ' Not with this wind blowing, and this tide. 'Has anyone else had word of him? ' Not th...Read Full Lyrics

I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines-- I will call in the Jungle to stamp out your lines! The roofs shall fade before it, The house-beams shall fall; And the Kar...Read Full Lyrics

Parliaments of Henry III., 1265 There are four good legs to my Father's Chair-- Priests and People and Lords and Crown. I sits on all of 'em fair and square, And that is re...Read Full Lyrics

The Law whereby my lady moves Was never Law to me, But 'tis enough that she approves Whatever Law it be. For in that Law, and by that Law My constant course I'll steer; Not...Read Full Lyrics

"Why is my District death-rate low?" Said Binks of Hezabad. "Well, drains, and sewage-outfalls are "My own peculiar fad. "I learnt a lesson once, It ran "Thus," quoth that mos...Read Full Lyrics