Rimini Lyrics

1903 -- After Boer War Duly with knees that feign to quake-- Bent head and shaded brow,-- Yet once again, for my father's sake, In Rimmon's House I bow. The curtains par...Read Full Lyrics

Here we go in a flung festoon, Half-way up to the jealous moon! Don't you envy our pranceful bands? Don't you wish you had extra hands? Would n't you like if your tails were --...Read Full Lyrics

1918 God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, But--leave your sports a little while--the dead are borne This way! Armies dead and Cities dead, past all cou...Read Full Lyrics

When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, ("It's all one," says the Sapper), The Lord He created the Engineer, Her Majesty's Royal Engineer, With the rank and pay of...Read Full Lyrics

Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool, I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule, With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forget...Read Full Lyrics

Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, And black are the waters that sparkled so green. The moon, o’er the combers, looks downward to find us At rest in the hollows t...Read Full Lyrics

There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, And a wealthy wife is she; She breeds a breed o' rovin' men And casts them over sea. And some are drowned in deep water, And some i...Read Full Lyrics

From the Greek Anthologies Swifter than aught 'neath the sun the car of Simonides moved Him. Two things he could not out-run--Death and a Woman who Loved him....Read Full Lyrics

Speakin' in general, I 'ave tried 'em all, The 'appy roads that take you o'er the world. Speakin' in general, I 'ave found them good For such as cannot use one bed too long, Bu...Read Full Lyrics

1918 Seven Watchmen sitting in a tower, Watching what had come upon mankind, Showed the Man the Glory and the Power, And bade him shape the Kingdom to his mind. "All thing...Read Full Lyrics