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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...
Independence (excerpt) — Rudyard Kipling
“To catch Dame Fortune’s golden smile Assiduous wait upon her, And gather gold by every wile That’s justified by honour— Not for to hide it in a hedge N...
Why do they prate of the blessings of peace? Lord Tennyson
Why do they prate of the blessings of peace? we have made them a curse, Pickpockets, each hand lusting for all that is not its own; And lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better or worse Than ...
Kipling’s The Recessional
God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle line, Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Th...