The Choice (The American Spirit Speaks) Lyrics

To be sung by the unlearned to the tune of "King John and the Abbot of Canterbury," and by the learned to "Tempest-a-brewing." Aga inst the Bermudas we foundered, whereby Thi...Read Full Lyrics

Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by the swinging, smoking seas. From reef and rock and skerry -- over headland, n...Read Full Lyrics

Until thy feet have trod the Road Advise not wayside folk, Nor till thy back has borne the Load Break in upon the broke. Chase not with undesired largesse Of sympathy the he...Read Full Lyrics

Circa 1904 -- Done out of Boethius by Geoffrey Chaucer Blessed was our first age and morning-time. Then were no Waies tarren, ne no cars numberen, but each followed his owne ...Read Full Lyrics

When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould; And the first rude sketch that t...Read Full Lyrics

Ride with an idle whip, ride with an unused heel, But, once in a way, there will come a day When the colt must be taught to feel The lash that falls, and the curb that galls, an...Read Full Lyrics

We thought we ranked above the chance of ill. Others might fall, not we, for we were wise-- Merchants in freedom. So, of our free-will We let our servants drug our strength with...Read Full Lyrics

China-going P. & O.'s Pass Pau Amma's playground close, And his Pusat Tasek lies Near the track of most B.I.'s. N.Y.K. and N.D.L. Know Pau Amma's home as well As the Fisher o...Read Full Lyrics

Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid, He to the overbearing Boanerges Jonson, uttered (if half of it were liquor, Blessed be the vintage!) Saying how, at an alehouse u...Read Full Lyrics

Long years ago, ere R--lls or R--ce Trebled the mileage man could cover; When Sh--nks's Mare was H--bs--n's Choice, And Bl--r--ot had not flown to Dover: When good hoteliers lo...Read Full Lyrics