 | Emilie Kip Baker - Children's poetry - 1915 - 232 pages
...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron frames; Vain, those all-shattering guns; Unless proud England keep, untamed, The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — • A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king,... | |
 | Edith Sophy (Balfour) Lyttelton (Hon. Mrs.) - 1917 - 492 pages
...the news of Friday, and may yet think proudly of their country. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron famed, Vain those all-shattering guns, Unless proud England keep, untamed, The strong heart of her sons. ALFRED LYTTELTON. 209 HAGLEY HALL, STOURBRIDGE, 5 th August 1894. I missed you dreadfully in church,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1918 - 692 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent. Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed; Vain, 'those...England keep, untamed, The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king,... | |
 | Hensley Henson - Anglican Communion - 1918 - 364 pages
...that the human factor finally prevails. Most truly did a patriotic poet of the last century write : Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those...England keep, untamed, The strong heart of her sons. Indeed, I am disposed to think that the conditions, under which War must now be waged, have increased... | |
 | James Edward Cowell Welldon - Church and social problems - 1918 - 106 pages
...that, as far as in them lies, they will aspire to live not unworthily of their imperial mission. ' Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain, those...England keep untamed The strong heart of her sons." But the patriotic and imperial sentiment of English hearts will, in the future, be the very opposite... | |
 | American poetry - 1918 - 2062 pages
...thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, / So let his name through Europe ring, — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1918 - 694 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent. Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed; Vain, those...England keep, untamed, The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king,... | |
 | 1919 - 478 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed; Vain, those...England keep, untamed, The strong heart of her sons. So let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because... | |
 | Jean Broadhurst - Patriotic poetry - 1919 - 382 pages
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain those all-shattering...England keep untamed The strong heart of her sons ; So let his name through Europe ring, — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king,... | |
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Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England keep, untamed, The strong heart of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his... 
