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THE MOUNTAINEER’S FATHER WILLIAM. “YOU are old, Father William,” the young man said, “ And your waistcoat is awfully tight, And yet you persistently plough up Sty Head, Do you think, at your age, it is right?” “In the days of my youth,” Father William replied, “T fostered each Sybarite taste ; But now I strive hard my tum-tum to retard, By wasting to limit my waist!” “ You are old, Father William,” the young man cried, “ Relinquish a passion so dread ! Lay ice axe and rope and dementia aside !— Remember the years o’er your head!” “In the days o…
1904 · PDF PAGE 93
…, lawyers, sailors, sodgers ! Ca’ me canty but? and ben? Mary Rogers! Does she live by taking lodgers? She is beautiful, but then Quaint old jossers, queer old codgers— ? How she does it, do ye ken? ® Women are such artful dodgers! Lord! I’d love to be there when Mary Rogers.‘ 1 But and ben—a Scots expression, very powerful and chaste. 2 This sentence is left unfinished for effect. 3 Does what? This is a problem rondel. 4 ¢.e, when yet unmarried.
1904 · PDF PAGE 51
BALLADE OF OLD ADMIRALS WHEN England’s children needed most The wall of wood, the naked sword, There ever stood at duty’s post A sailor, commoner or lord, Ready at once to step aboard, And bid the top-sails heavenward shake, And smite the foe’s unwieldy horde :— Nelson and Rodney, Howe and Drake. Like some white softly-stealing ghost, The wide-winged ships, with iron stored, Drop down the Channel, with a toast To England, Home, and Beauty. Roared All in a sudden wild accord The broadside for old England’s sake : The enemy could not afford Nelso…
1904 · PDF PAGE 50
…said Heaven was blue, And you owe, that your life is not wrecked, To a serious ballade or two. ENVOI Princess, it is ill superseding The old and well-tried with the new. Still, for once, lend your ear not unheeding To a serious ballade or two.
1904 · PDF PAGE 52
40 BALLADE OF OLD ADMIRALS Our foes, whose flanks are ever scored With the great gashes that they make— These names shall strike a ringing chord— Nelson and Rodney, Howe and Drake. L’ENVOI England, thy sons shall guard thy coast, While the white waves in thunder break ; While in these names we make our boast— Nelson and Rodney, Howe and Drake.
1904 · PDF PAGE 67
… men), I was peaked on my skill at Peak-et! And the muscular strength (which I didn’t use then) Comes in for a subsequent day!” “You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “Yet your tongue is as trusty as ever; You consistently lie in a manner that I Consider infernally clever!” “T have answered three questions, and that is enough, Come on, if you’re coming at all! Pi hold you—this Buckingham’s capital stuff— I'll hold—but I’m hanged if I’ll haul!”
1904 · PDF PAGE 9
…ambridge Papers Ballade of the New Humour Ballade of the One-Eyed Tout . Ballade of Lawn Tennis . Ballade of Serious Ballades Ballade of Old Admirals A Refrain of a Far Country A Ballade of Farewell vii PAGE 1X
1904 · PDF PAGE 31
…of Salmon Mayonnaise ? I was about to ask—Lunch served ? Right! I am coming—to ask why These innocent delights deserved From Solomon the old and sly 19
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…ve used a gun, A schoolmaster a rod— A ten ace may be led of none Who reckon on the odd. And now, amid the wrack Of your position, Their old established suit comes back, With an unfettered run ;
1904 · PDF PAGE 88
…n, Those ancient temples, sculptures classic, could none of them retain her? Nor shades of Virgil and Dante, nor myriad memories, poems, old associa- tions, magnetize and hold on to her? Yes, if you will allow me to say so, I, my friends, if you do not, can plainly see her, The same undying soul of earth’s, activity’s, beauty’s, heroism’s expression, Out from her evolutions hither come, ended the strata of her former themes, Hidden and cover’d by to-day’s, foundation of to-day’s, Ended, deceas’d through time, her voice by Castaly’s fountain Sil…