Songs of the Army of the Night

But mine eyes were fixed on the people that sought this horrible den, And they mounted in thronged battalions, children and women and men, Right out from the low horizons, more...

Once on thy lips the golden-honeyed bees Settling made sweet the heart that was not strong, And sky and earth and sea burst into song: {87b} Once on thine eyes the light of agon...

Come then, let us at least know what's the truth. Let us not blink our eyes and say We did not understand; old age or youth Benumbed our sense or stole our sight away.

These Chinese toil and yet they do not starve, And they obey, and yet they are not slaves. It is the "free-born" fuddled Englishmen That grovel rotting in their living graves.

Her cheeks are rather fallen in; a mist Glazes her eyes, for all their hungry glare. Her lips do not breathe balmy when they're kissed. And yet she's not more loathsome than, I...

PAGE Preface 11 This Book 15 SONGS OF THE ARMY OF THE NIGHT. _Proem_:--"Outside London" 18 _PART I.--ENGLAND_. In the Camp 19 "Axiom" 20 Drill 20 Evening Hymn in the Hovels 21 I...

{80} This explanation of these curious arborial growths is Mr Alfred Wallace's (_Malay Archipelago_, chapter v.), and in this matter also we may perhaps be content to rely on th...