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The New World Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling (11); Songs From Books. the Years Between and Parodies
The New World Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling Songs From Books the Years Between and Parodies - 11 Author:Rudyard Kipling Volume: 11 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1919 Original Publisher: Doubleday, Page Subjects: History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial ... more »access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE DUTCH IN THE MEDWAY IF war were won by feasting, Or victory by song, Or safety found in sleeping sound, How England would be strong! But honour and dominion Are not maintained so, They're only got by sword and shot, And this the Dutchmen know! The moneys that should feed us, You spend on your delight, How can you then have sailor-men To aid you in your fight? Our fish and cheese are rotten, Which makes the scurvy grow -- We cannot serve you if we starve, And this the Dutchmen know! Our ships in every harbour Be neither whole nor sound, And, when we seek to mend a leak, No oakum can be found, Or, if it is, the caulkers, And carpenters also, For lack of pay have run away, And this the Dutchmen know! Mere powder, guns, and bullets, We scarce can get at all. Their price was spent in merriment And revel at Whitehall, While we in tattered doublets From ship to ship must row, Beseeching friends for odds and ends- And this the Dutchmen know! No King will heed our warnings, No Court will pay our claims -- Our King and Court for their disport Do sell the very Thames! For, now De Ruyter's topsails, Off naked Chatham show, We dare not meet him with our fleet- And this the Dutchmen know! JUBAL AND TUBAL CAIN UBAL sang of the Wrath of God And the curse of thistle and thorn -- But Tubal got him a pointed rod, And scrabbled the earth for corn. Old -- old as that early mould, Young as the sprouting grain -- Yearly green is the strife between Jubal and Tubal Cain! Jubal sang o...« less