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BY HENRY NEWBOLT LONDON JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1912
TO ADMIRAL SIR REGINALD CUSTANCE
{vi} AUTHOR'S NOTE This volume forms a complete collection of all my published work in
verse from 1897 to 1912. It includes the contents of four previous
volumes: Admirals All (1897), The Island Race (1898), The Sailing
of the Long Ships (1902), and Songs of Memory and Hope (1909),
together with a number of pieces added to the later editions of the
first two of these, and ten poems which have not hitherto appeared in
book form namely, Sailing at Dawn, The Song of the Sou' Wester, The
Middle Watch, The Little Admiral, The Song of the Guns at Sea,
Farewell, Mors Janua, Gold, The Faun , and Rilloby Rill . The volumes above mentioned were dedicated respectively to ANDREW LANG,
to ROBERT BRIDGES, to SIR EDWARD GREY, and to LAURENCE BINYON; and I
delight to repeat these names once more, in a volume which commemorates
also the inspiration of a later friendship. H. N.
{vii} CONTENTS
PAGE SONGS OF THE FLEET:
I. SAILING AT DAWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. THE SONG OF THE SOU' WESTER . . . . . . . 3
III. THE MIDDLE WATCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
IV. THE LITTLE ADMIRAL . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
V. THE SONG OF THE GUNS AT SEA . . . . . . . 9
VI. FAREWELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
ODE FOR TRAFALGAR DAY, 1905 . . . . . . . . . . 12
THE HUNDREDTH YEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
DRAKE'S DRUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
THE FIGHTING TÉMÉRAIRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
ADMIRALS ALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
SAN STEFANO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
HAWKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
THE BRIGHT "MEDUSA" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
THE OLD "SUPERB" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
THE QUARTER GUNNER'S YARN . . . . . . . . . . . 32
NORTHUMBERLAND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
FOR A TRAFALGAR CENOTAPH . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
CRAVEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
MESSMATES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
THE DEATH OF ADMIRAL BLAKE . . . . . . . . . . . 42 {viii} PAGE VAE VICTIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
MINORA SIDERA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
LAUDABUNT ALII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
ADMIRAL DEATH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
HOMEWARD BOUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
GILLESPIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SERINGAPATAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
A BALLAD OF JOHN NICHOLSON . . . . . . . . . . . 61
THE GUIDES AT CABUL, 1879 . . . . . . . . . . . 65
THE GAY GORDONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
HE FELL AMONG THIEVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
IONICUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
THE NON COMBATANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
SACRAMENTUM SUPREMUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
CLIFTON CHAPEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
VITAÏ LAMPADA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
THE VIGIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
THE SAILING OF THE LONG SHIPS . . . . . . . . . 82
WAGGON HILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
THE VOLUNTEER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
THE ONLY SON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
THE GRENADIER'S GOOD BYE . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
THE SCHOOLFELLOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
ON SPION KOP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
THE SCHOOL AT WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
BY THE HEARTH STONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
PEACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
APRIL ON WAGGON HILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
COMMEMORATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 {ix} PAGE THE ECHO ... Continue reading book >>
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