 | 1919 - 1278 pages
...he?. Human, eh?" Thus does the spirit of democracy toss over its shoulder the gewgaw of divine right. He greets the embarrassed gods, nor fears To shake...iron hand of Fate, Or match with Destiny for beers. Shall I demand ceremony when royalty is thus assailed? While the street arab assumed the r61e of critic,... | |
 | 1897 - 590 pages
...keen untroubled face Home, to the instant need of things. Enslaved, illogical, elate, He greets th' embarrassed Gods, nor fears To shake the iron hand of Fate Or match with Destiny for beers. Io ! imperturbable he rules, Unkempt, disreputable, vast — And, in the teeth of all the schools,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1896 - 228 pages
...keen untroubled face Home, to the instant need of things. Enslaved, illogical, elate, He greets th' embarrassed Gods, nor fears To shake the iron hand of Fate Or match with Destiny for beers. Lo! imperturbable he rules, Unkempt, disreputable, vast — And, in the teeth of all the schools I... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - Children's poetry - 1896 - 242 pages
...to the instant need of things. Enslaved, illogical, elate, He greets th' embarrassed Gods, nor,fears To shake the iron hand of Fate Or match with Destiny for beers. Lol imperturbable he rules, Unkempt, disreputable, vast — And, in the teeth of all the schools I... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 404 pages
...keen untroubled face Home, to the instant need of things. Enslaved, illogical, elate, He greets th' embarrassed Gods, nor fears To shake the iron hand of Fate Or match with Destiny for beers. Lo, imperturbable he rules, Unkempt, disreputable, vast — And, in the teeth of all the schools, I... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 400 pages
...keen untroubled face Home, to the instant need of things. Enslaved, illogical, elate, He greets th' embarrassed Gods, nor fears To shake the iron hand of Fate Or match with Destiny for beers. Lo, imperturbable he rules, Unkempt, disreputable, vast — And, in the teeth of all the schools, I... | |
 | John St. Loe Strachey - English literature - 1897 - 360 pages
...truth. The Spirit of America speaks thus of the American : — Enslaved, illogical, elate, He greets th' embarrassed Gods, nor fears To shake the iron hand of Fate, Or toss with Destiny for beers. Lo ! Imperturbable he rules Unkempt, disreputable, vast — And in the... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1898 - 400 pages
...keen untroubled face Home, to the instant need of things. Enslaved, illogical, elate, He greets th' embarrassed Gods, nor fears To shake the iron hand of Fate Or match with Destiny for beers. Lo, imperturbable he rules, Unkempt, disreputable, vast — And, in the teeth of all the schools, I... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1899 - 240 pages
...had from the next to the last of its fourteen stanzas : " Enslaved, illogical, elate, He greets th' embarrassed Gods, nor fears To shake the iron hand of Fate Or match with Destiny for beers." " To me it gives a sense of his penetration and his grasp that nothing else does. I am tempted to call... | |
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Enslaved, illogical, elate, He greets th' embarrassed Gods, nor fears To shake the iron hand of Fate Or match with Destiny for beers. 
