 | André Chevrillon - Authors, English - 1923 - 280 pages
...but ye said, " The end is close." And ye sent them comfits and pictures to help them harry your foes, And ye vaunted your fathomless power, and ye flaunted your iron pride, Ere—ye fawned on the Younger Nations for the men who could shoot and ride ! Then ye returned to your... | |
 | Gerhard von der Lippe Gran, Francis Bull - Literature - 1927 - 540 pages
...loosened; then was your shame revealed, At the hands of a little people, few, but apt in the field. And ye vaunted your fathomless power, and ye flaunted...the Younger Nations for the men who could shoot and ridel Then ye returned to your trinkets ; then ye contented your souls With the flannelled fools at... | |
 | John W. Crawford - American literature - 1978 - 216 pages
...loosened; then was your shame revealed, At the hands of a little people, few but apt in the field . . . And ye vaunted your fathomless power, and ye flaunted your iron pride. Ere—ye fawned on the Younger Nations for the men who could shoot and ride! Then ye returned to your... | |
 | Cecil D. Eby - Literary Collections - 1987 - 308 pages
...That might also serve as an appropriate epitaph for the species Homo newboltiensis. 6 AT THE WICKET Then ye returned to your trinkets; then ye contented your souls With the flanneled fools at the vricket or the muddied oafs at the goals. RUDYARD KIPLING, "The Islanders" Novels... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...days! the wild geese are (lighting, Head to the storm as they faced it before. 'The Irish Guards' 6 Then ye returned to your trinkets; then ye contented your souls With the llannelled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals. 'The Islanders' (1903) 7 I've taken... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1925 - 674 pages
...but ye said, 'The end is close.' And ye sent them comfits and pictures to help them harry your foes, And ye vaunted your fathomless power, and ye flaunted...Younger Nations for the men who could shoot and ride! THE ISLANDERS Then ye returned to your trinkets; then ye contented your souls With the flannelled fools... | |
 | Charles Elston Nixon - Music - 1903 - 518 pages
...pride, and their fawning dependence on colonial help for real fighting material, Mr. Kipling continues : "Then ye returned to your trinkets ; then ye contented your souls With the flanneled fools at the wicket or the muddied oafs at the goals. Given to strong delusion, wholly believing... | |
 | Humanities - 1901 - 742 pages
...of restraint, a tendency to sacrifice truth for effect, which reaches its climax in such lines as, "And ye vaunted your fathomless power, and ye flaunted your iron pride, •Era ye fawned on the younger nations for the men who could shoot and ride, Then ye returned to your... | |
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And ye vaunted your fathomless power, and ye flaunted your iron pride, Ere — ye fawned on the Younger Nations for the men who could shoot and ride! 
