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Kipling’s Fox Hunting
When Samson set my brush afire To spoil the Timnite's barley, I made my point for Leicestershire And left Philistia early. Through Gath and Rankesborough Gorse I fled, And took the Coplow Road, sir ! ...
THE GREEN KNIGHT FOXHUNTING READING
GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT FOXHUNTING READING After Mass of a morsel he and his men partook.Merry was the morning. For his mount then he called.All the huntsmen that on horse behind him should follow...
Championing Englishness
I was watching Scott’s video on Greenwood’s mission and, like the rest of you, thought it sounded rather novel: Anglo-American culture has been under attack from all angles, and many peopl...
The Exiled One
Often the solitary one finds grace for himself the mercy of the Lord, Although he, sorry-hearted, must for a long time move by hand [in context = row] along the waterways, (along) the ice-cold sea, tr...
Kipling’s ‘A Charm’
A Charm Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for all who lie beneath. Not the great nor well-bespoke, But the mere uncounted folk Of whos...
Tennyson’s Love thou thy land, with love far-brought
From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Thro’ future time by power of thought. True love turn’d round on fixed poles, Love, that endures not sordid ends, For...
Alfred the Great’s PREFACE note
“And I would have it known that very often it has come to my mind what men of learning there were formerly throughout England, both in religious and secular orders; and how there were happy times then...
An American’s Pilgrimage to England reading
Full verse eluded to in Latest episode on USA. This is on the first page of An American’s Pilgrimage to England I think it’s called. Old book. I may make an ebook out of it at some point, ...
William Blake’s PREFACE & Jerusalem
“The stolen and perverted writings of Homer and Ovid, of Plato and Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up by artifice against the Sublime of the Bible; but when the New Age is at lei...