 When your strong men cheered in their millions while your striplings went to the war. Sons of the sheltered city — unmade, unhandled, unmeet — Ye pushed them raw to the battle as ye picked them raw from the street. And what did ye look they should...  United States Naval Institute Proceedings - Page 69by United States Naval Institute - 1911Full view - About this book
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...trained for war — Your strong men cheered in their millions while your striplings went to the war, Sons of the sheltered city— unmade, unhandled, unmeet...the battle, as ye picked them raw from the street. — we trained our horses for the racecourse and our dogs for the hunting-field, but we disdained to... | |
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...broke "a lance at British devotion to sports. The keynote of the poem is in these lines: ' „ . _ "Sons of the sheltered city— unmade, unhandled,...street. And what did ye look they should compass? Wafcraft learned in a breath? Knowledge unto occasion at the first far view of Death ? So! And ye train... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1903 - 236 pages
...long-suffering Star), When your strong men cheered in their millions while your striplings went to the war. Sons of the sheltered city — unmade, unhandled,...Knowledge unto occasion at the first far view of Death ? So ! And ye train your horses and the dogs ye feed and prize? How are the beasts more worthy than... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1903 - 322 pages
...cheered in their millions while your striplings went to the war. Sons of the sheltered city—unmade, unhandled, unmeet— Ye pushed them raw to the battle...Knowledge unto occasion at the first far view of Death? So! And ye train your horses and the dogs ye feed and prize? How are the beasts more worthy than the... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1903 - 236 pages
...long-suffering Star), When your strong men cheered in their millions while your striplings went to the war. Sons of the sheltered city — unmade, unhandled,...the battle as ye picked them raw from the street. THE ISLANDERS And what did ye look they should compass? Warcraft learned in a breath, Knowledge unto... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1903 - 228 pages
...long-suffering Star), When your strong men cheered in their millions while your striplings went to the war. Sons of the sheltered city — unmade, unhandled,...the battle as ye picked them raw from the street. THE ISLANDERS And what did ye look they should compass? Warcraft learned in a breath, Knowledge unto... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1903 - 230 pages
...long-suffering Star), When your strong men cheered in their millions while your striplings went to the war. Sons of the sheltered city — unmade, unhandled,...the battle as ye picked them raw from the street. THE ISLANDERS And what did ye look they should compass? Warcraft learned in a breath, Knowledge unto... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1904 - 714 pages
...207 ROBERT BARR When your strong men cheered in their millions while your striplings went to the war. Sons of the sheltered city — unmade, unhandled,...the battle as ye picked them raw from the street. But ye said, "Their valour shall show them," but ve saul, '* The end is close." And ye sent them comfits... | |
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...— I had another dream. SECOND DREAM. " And what did ye look they should compass ! W.ircraft learnt in a breath, Knowledge unto occasion at the first far view of Death ?" KIPLING. (See Map 3.) I suddenly found myself dumped down at Duffer's Drift with the same orders... | |
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