 We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls us, still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: We have strawed our best to the weed's unrests To the shark and the sheering gull. If blood be the price of...  The Quarterly Review - Page 79edited by - 1915Full view - About this book
 | 1893 - 972 pages
...the wayside ye shall come to your own ! II. We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she hails us still unfed, Though there's never a wave of all...sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty Good God, we ha' paid in full ! There's never a flood goes shoreward now But lifts a keel we manned... | |
 | 1898 - 346 pages
...Says of England's Naval Wars. We have fed our sea for a thousand years. And she hails us, still unfed; There's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead. We have strewn our best to the weed's unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull; If blood be the price of... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1898 - 44 pages
...First, it will cost life and money in rich measure. Kipling tells us the cost of British Admiralty: We have fed our sea for a thousand years, And she...wave of all her waves But marks our English dead. We've strewed our best to the weeds' unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull ; If blood be the price... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1898 - 46 pages
...First, it will cost life and money in rich measure. Kipling tells us the cost of British Admiralty : We have fed our sea for a thousand years, And she...wave of all her waves But marks our English dead. We've strewed our best to the weeds' unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull; If blood be the price... | |
 | May Hunt - 1898 - 460 pages
...great sepulchre of r.he English dead, and for the dominion of the seas a full price has been paid; "We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she...Though there's never a wave of all her waves But marks an Englisjj dead! We have strawed our best to the weeds' unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull.... | |
 | G. F. Monkshood - 1899 - 282 pages
...our sea for a thousand years And she hails us still unfed, Though there 's never a wave of all our waves But marks our English dead. We have strawed...sheering gull. If blood be the price of admiralty, Good God, we ha' paid in full ! " Later in the poem, occurs the song of the sons : "... Mother be proud... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1899 - 314 pages
...First, it will cost life and money in rich measure. Kipling tells us the cost of British Admiralty : " We have fed our sea for a thousand years, And she...wave of all her waves But marks our English dead. We've strewed our best to the weeds' unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull ; If blood be the price... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1899 - 324 pages
...there's never a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead. We've strewed our best to the weeds' unrest, To the shark and the sheering gull; If blood be the price of admiralty Lord God! we have paid it in full." If we have a navy that can make history we must pay for it as - England does,... | |
 | 1901 - 624 pages
...reversal of selection stand for what it is worth. Kipling tells us of the cost of the rule of the sea: "We have fed our sea for a thousand years, And she...wave of all her waves But marks our English dead." "If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we have paid it in full." Again, referring to dominion... | |
 | George Henry Shibley - 1900 - 264 pages
...much that is good, vigorous and stirring, as well as of all that is bad in English life and history. "We have fed our sea for a thousand years. And she calls us still unfed." "If blood >e the price of admiralty, Lord Uod, we ha' paid in full." "Walk wide o' the Widow at Windsor.... | |
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