William Percy French Gold Poems

  • 1.
    When painters leave this world, we grieve
    For the hand that will work no more,
    But who can say that they rest alway
    On that still celestial shore?
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  • 2.
    Oh Mary this London's a wonderful sight
    With people here workin' by day and by night
    They don't sow potatoes, nor barley, nor wheat
    But there's gangs of them diggin' for gold in the street
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  • 3.
    The Midland Great Western is doing its best,
    And the circular ticket is safe in my vest;
    But I know that my holiday never begins
    Till I'm in Connemara among the Twelve Pins.
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Total 3 Gold Poems by William Percy French

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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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