Herbert Asquith

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  • 1.
    NOW that the soul has left its throne
    Behind your mortal eyes,
    And light, and colour and sound are gone
    From the body's palaces :
    ...
  • 2.
    Hooded in angry mist, the sun goes down:
    Steel-gray the clouds roll out across the sea:
    Is this a Kingdom? Then give Death the crown,
    For here no emperor hath won, save He.
    ...
  • 3.
    IN domes of dim and ancient gold,
    In cloisters, where the lightning plays,
    Where gleam the gorgeous saints of old
    In aisles of jade and chrysoprase,
    ...
  • 4.
    HOODED in angry mist, the sun goes down:
    Steel-gray the clouds roll out across the Sea:
    Is this a Kingdom? Then give Death the crown,
    For here no emperor hath won, save He.
    ...
  • 5.
    UP and down, up and down
    They go, the gray rat, and the brown.
    The telegraph lines are tangled hair,
    Motionless on the sullen air
    ...
  • 6.
    (TO A CHILD)

    LOVE be thy charioteer:
    In all thy brightening and thy darkening hours
    ...
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Where's the steward?-Bar-room steward? Berth? Oh, any berth will do-
I have left a three-pound billet just to come along with you.
Brighter shines the Star of Rovers on a world that-s growing wide,
But I think I-d give a kingdom for a glimpse of Sydney-Side.
Run of rocky shelves at sunrise, with their base on ocean-s bed;
Homes of Coogee, homes of Bondi, and the lighthouse on South Head.
For in loneliness and hardship-and with just a touch of pride-
Has my heart been taught to whisper, -You belong to Sydney-Side.-
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