The Brown MareA.A. Knopf, 1916 - 145 pagine |
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Pagina 135 - England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed ; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam ; A body of England's breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
Pagina 50 - It's a long way to Tipperary, It's a long way to go; It's a long way to Tipperary, To the sweetest girl I know ! Good-bye Piccadilly, Farewell, Leicester Square, It's a long, long way to Tipperary, But my heart's right there!
Pagina 144 - ... taste his fame. A few weeks before he died Dean Inge quoted from the pulpit of St. Paul's his incomparable lines, — If I should die, think only this of me — He did die — almost immediately; perhaps a month before his school-fellow. The one lad sleeps in a wood in Flanders on the hither side of our trenches; the other under an olivegrove on an island in the ^Egean Sea, within sound of the guns wrangling over the Dardanelles. And thousands of their peers — the boys they knew and sported...
Pagina 55 - With malice toward none : with charity for all : with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in : to bind up the nation's wounds : to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphan : — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.