Poor Honest Men Lyrics

"They are fools who kiss and tell" -- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue. Jenny and Me were engaged, you see, On the e...Read Full Lyrics

When the robust and Brass-bound Man commissioned first for sea His fragile raft, Poseidon laughed, and "Mariner," said he, "Behold, a Law immutable I lay on thee and thine, That...Read Full Lyrics

Ay, lay him 'neath the Simla pine -- A fortnight fully to be missed, Behold, we lose our fourth at whist, A chair is vacant where we dine. His place forgets him; other men H...Read Full Lyrics

I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. In deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not sh...Read Full Lyrics

If any God should say, 'I will restore The world her yesterday Whole as before My Judgment blasted it'- who would not lift Heart, eye, and hand in passion o'er the gift? If...Read Full Lyrics

The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the snow-- They beg for coffee and sugar; they go where the white men go. The People of the Western Ice, they learn to steal ...Read Full Lyrics

See you the ferny ride that steals Into the oak-woods far? O that was whence they hewed the keels That rolled to Trafalgar. And mark you where the ivy clings To Bayham's mou...Read Full Lyrics

Walpole talks of "a man and his price." List to a ditty queer -- The sale of a Deputy-Acting-Vice- Resident-Engineer, Boug ht like a bullock, hoof and hide, By the Little Tin ...Read Full Lyrics

June 22, 1897 God of our fathers, known of old— Lord of our far-flung battle-line— Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine— Lord God of Hosts, be ...Read Full Lyrics

For our white and our excellent nights--for the nights of swift Running, Fair ranging, far seeing, good hunting, sure cunning! For the smells of the dawning, untainted, ere dew ...Read Full Lyrics