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And some are sulky, while some will plunge. (So ho! Steady! Stand still, you!)

Some you must gentle, and some you must lunge.

(There! There! Who wants to kill you?)

Will break their hearts ere bitted and made, Will fight like fiends as the rope cuts hard, And die dumb-mad in the breaking-yard." Thrown Away.

The World hath set its heavy yoke
Upon the old white-bearded folk

Who strive to please the King.
God's mercy is upon the young,
God's wisdom in the baby tongue

That fears not anything.

Tod's Amendment.

Not though you die to-night, O Sweet, and wail,

A spectre at my door,

Shall mortal Fear make Love immortal fail

I shall but love you more,

Who, from Death's house returning, give me still

One moment's comfort in my matchless ill.

By Word of Mouth.

They burnt a corpse upon the sand
The light shone out afar;

It guided home the plunging boats
That beat from Zanzibar,

Spirit of Fire, where e'er Thy altars rise,

Thou art the Light of Guidance to our eyes! In Error.

Ride with an idle whip, ride with an unused heel,
But, once in a way, there will come a day
When the colt must be taught to feel

The lash that falls, and the curb that galls, and the sting of the rowelled steel.

The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin.

It was not in the open fight
We threw away the sword,
But in the lonely watching
In the darkness by the ford,

The waters lapped, the night-wind blew,
Full-armed the Fear was born and grew,
From panic in the night.

The Rout of the White Hussars.

In the daytime, when she moved about me,
In the night, when she was sleeping at my side,-
I was wearied, I was wearied of her presence,
Day by day and night by night I grew to hate

Would God that she or I had died!

The Bronckhorst Divorce Case.

A stone's throw out on either hand
From that well-ordered road we tread,
And all the world is wild and strange;
Churel and ghoul and Djinn and sprite
Shall bear us company to-night,
For we have reached the Oldest Land
Wherein the powers of Darkness range.
In the House of Suddhoo.

To-night, God knows what thing shall tide, The Earth is racked and faint

Expectant, sleepless, open-eyed;

And we, who from the Earth were made,

Thrill with our Mother's pain.

False Dawn.

Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide,

By the hot sun emptied, and blistered and dried;
Log in the reh-grass, hidden and lone;

Bund where the earth-rat's mounds are strown;
Cave in the bank where the sly stream steals;
Aloe that stabs at the belly and heels,
Jump if you dare on a steed untried-
Safer it is to go wide go wide!

Hark, from in front where the best men ride;
"Pull to the off, boys! Wide! Go wide!"

Cupid's Arrows.

He drank strong waters and his speech was

coarse

He purchased raiment and forebore to pay,
He stuck a trusting junior with a horse
And won gymkhanas in a doubtful way.
Then, 'twixt a vice and folly, turned aside

To do good deeds and straight to cloak them,

lied.

A Bank Fraud.

THE THOUSANDTH MAN

One man in a thousand, Solomon says,
Will stick more close than a brother.
And it's worth while seeking him half your days
If you find him before the other.

Nine hundred and ninety-nine depend

On what the world sees in you,

But the Thousandth Man will stand your friend With the whole round world agin you.

'Tis neither promise nor prayer nor show
Will settle the finding for 'ee.

Nine hundred and ninety-nine of 'em go
By your looks or your acts or your glory.
But if he finds you and you find him,
The rest of the world don't matter;

For the Thousandth Man will sink or swim
With you in any water.

You can use his purse with no more talk
Than he uses yours for his spendings,