 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 344 pages
...door In gray soft eddyings hung; Must he then watch it rise no more, Doomed by himself, so young? 24 Yes, honour calls ! — with strength like steel He...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. 3* Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain those all-shattering guns, Unless proud England... | |
 | English poetry - 1905 - 736 pages
...door, In grey soft eddyings hung : Must he then watch it rise no more, Doom'd by himself, so young ? Yes, honour calls ! — with strength like steel He...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig - American poetry - 1905 - 338 pages
...hung; Must he then watch it rise no more, Doomed by himself, so young? 2 4 Yes, honour calls!—with strength like steel He put the vision by; Let dusky...not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on 1 its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. 3^ Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain those... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...Thou say 'st an undisputed thing In such a solemn way, HOLMES, To an Insect, st, 1 Unfaltering, — And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went, SIR F, H, DOYLE, The Private of the Buffs, st, 4 Unfortunate, — One more unfortunate, Weary... | |
 | Christopher Stone - English poetry - 1908 - 216 pages
...door, In gray soft eddyings hung : Must he then watch it rise no more, Doomed by himself, so young ? Yes, honour calls! — with strength like steel He...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed; Vain, those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1908 - 318 pages
...door, In grey soft eddyings hung: Must he then watch it rise no more, Doomed by himself, so young? Yes, honour calls ! — with strength like steel He...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those all-shattering guns; Unless proud England... | |
 | Patriotic poetry - 1908 - 228 pages
...gray soft eddyings hung; Must he then watch it rise no more, Doomed by himself so young? Yes, honor calls ! — with strength like steel He put the vision...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain those all-shattering guns, Unless proud England keep... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 1908 - 398 pages
...gray soft eddyings hung ; Must he then watch it rise no more, Doomed by himself so young ? Yes, honor calls ! — with strength like steel He put the vision...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed, Vain those all-shattering guns, Unless proud England keep... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...door, In grey soft eddyings hung : Must he then watch it rise no more, Doomed by himself so young ? Yes, honour calls ! — with strength like steel He...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England... | |
 | Frederick LANGBRIDGE - 1911 - 510 pages
...door, In gray soft eddyings hung : Must he then watch it rise no more, Doom'd by himself, so young ? Yes, honour calls ! — with strength like steel He...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets of iron framed ; Vain, those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England... | |
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He put the vision by. Let dusky Indians whine and kneel, An English lad must die. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink To his red grave he went. 
