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John Drinkwater Poems

  • Birthright
    Lord Rameses of Egypt sighed
    Because a summer evening passed;
    And little Ariadne cried
    That summer fancy fell at last ...
  • Interlude
    What love is; how I love; how builders' clay
    By love is lit into a golden spending;
    How love calls beautiful ghosts back to the day;
    How life because of love shall have no ending, ...
  • To My Son
    (AGED SIXTEEN)

    Dear boy unborn: the son but of my dream,
    Promise of yet unrisen day, ...
  • Southampton Bells
    I

    Long ago some builder thrust
    Heavenward in Southampton town ...
  • Gold
    There is a castle on a hill,
    So far into the sky,
    That birds that from the valley-beds
    Up to the turrets fly, ...
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The Song Of The Soldier-Born
 by Robert Service

Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant;
Wail of the pines and a wind with the shout of a giant;
Night and a trail unknown and a heart reliant.

Give me to live and love in the old, bold fashion;
A soldier's billet at night and a soldier's ration;
A heart that leaps to the fight with a soldier's passion.

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