 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...  Deeds that Won the Empire: Historic Battle Scenes - Page 175by William Henry Fitchett - 1898 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Holbrook Jackson - Literary Criticism - 1922 - 410 pages
...restlessness which had pitted the English against nature and barbarism in the ends of the earth: " there's never a wave of all her waves but marks our English dead," he sang. Not alone of successful enterprise of soldier or sailor does he sing; but he is fully conscious... | |
 | Education - 1900 - 662 pages
...stirring, as well as of nearly all that is degrading in English life and history: "We have fed our sen for a thousand years, And she calls us, still unfed; Though there's never a wave of all her waves But sweeps o'er our English dead." "If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we have paid it In full."... | |
 | Education - 1914 - 722 pages
...Noyes the other day to say of England : "It is only my dead that I count, shesays and she says today. We have fed our sea for a thousand years and she calls us still unfed, Though there is never a wave of all her waves but sweeps o'er our British dead.. 336 THE EDUCATOR-JOURNAL.... | |
 | Karl Wildhagen - England - 1925 - 240 pages
...fights, far away. The sea is also the greatest of all the cemeteries of the British people; so that „there's never a wave of all her waves, but marks our English dead". It is with this call at the heart challenging the call of the fields that the Englishman contemplates... | |
 | Roy Winthrop Hatch, De Forest Stull - Social sciences - 1926 - 112 pages
...England lies in her command of the sea. As Rudyard Kipling, our patriot poet, says: We have fed our seas for a thousand years, And she calls us, still unfed,...wave of all her waves But marks our English dead. Sir Walter Besant, Alfred the Great. See Tuell and Hatch, No. 6 and No. 66. Campbell: Ye Mariners of... | |
 | Roy Winthrop Hatch, De Forest Stull - Social sciences - 1926 - 116 pages
...poet, says: We have fed our seas 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. Sir Walter Besant, Alfred the Great. See Tuell and Hatch, No. 6 and No. 66. Campbell: Ye Mariners of... | |
 | American essays - 1897 - 902 pages
...— . " What is the flag of England, winds of the world declare," to The Song of the English, — " 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," — ^ his imagination dwells with... | |
 | Science - 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 he the price of admiralty, Lord God, we have paid it in full." Again, referring to dominion... | |
 | Roger Lancelyn Green - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 440 pages
...Flag' — 'What is the flag of England, winds of the world declare', to 'The Song of the English' — We have fed our sea for a thousand years, And she...a wave of all her waves But marks our English dead — his imagination dwells with vivifying emotion on the heroic combats — now victories, now defeats... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...you friz?' He replied 'Yes, I is But we don't call this cold in Quebec!' 5745 'The Song of the Dead' We have fed our sea for a thousand years And she calls...wave of all her waves But marks our English dead: 5746 'The Song of the Dead' We have si rawed our best to the weed's unrest To the shark and sheering... | |
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