 | England - 1893 - 972 pages
...the sands forlore, From The Ducies to the Swin. If blood be the price of admiralty Good God, we ha' paid it in ! We must feed our sea for a thousand years,...tide — Or the wreck that lies on the spouting reef Where the ghastly blue-lights flare. If blood be the price of admiralty If blood be the price of admiralty... | |
 | Education - 1898 - 346 pages
...the price of admiralty Good God, we have paid it in ! We must feed our sea for a thousand years, Por that is our doom and pride, As it was when they sailed...tide; Or the wreck that lies on the spouting reef Where the ghastly blue lights flare; If blood be the price of admiralty Good God, we have bought it... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - Sea poetry - 1896 - 236 pages
...the Swin. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid it in ! We must feed our sea for a thousand years,...tide — Or the wreck that lies on the spouting reef Where the ghastly blue-lights flare. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1896 - 228 pages
...the Swin. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid it in! We must feed our sea for a thousand years,...tide — Or the wreck that lies on the spouting reef Where the ghastly blue-lights flare. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 416 pages
...the Swin. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid it in! We must feed our sea for a thousand years,...tide — Or the wreck that lies on the spouting reef Where the ghastly blue-lights flare. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 404 pages
...the Swin. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid it in ! We must feed our sea for a thousand years,...tide — Or the wreck that lies on the spouting reef Where the ghastly blue-lights flare. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty,... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - Cuban question - 1898 - 44 pages
...part of the Anglo-Saxon brotherhood ; to plant itself in the midst of events, and mold them to ils mighty purpose." Such is the dream of American imperialism....wreck that lies on the spouting reef, When the ghastly blue lights flare: If blood be the price of admiralty, My God, we have paid it fair. If we have a navy... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1898 - 400 pages
...the Swin. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid it in! We must feed our sea for a thousand years,...tide — Or the wreck that lies on the spouting reef Where the ghastly blue-lights flare. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty,... | |
 | William Henry Fitchett - Battles - 1898 - 392 pages
...But lifts a keel we manned ; There's never an ebb goes seaward now But drops our dead on the sand. We must feed our sea for a thousand years, For that...tide — Or the wreck that lies on the spouting reef Where the ghastly blue lights flare. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 226 pages
...the Swin. If blood be the price of admiralty, If blood be the price of admiralty, Lord God, we ha' paid it in! We must feed our sea for a thousand years,...tide — Or the wreck that lies on the spouting reef "e the ghastly blue-lights flare. <2t 0ong of tlje iEnglislj. If blood be the price of admiralty, If... | |
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We must feed our sea for a thousand years, For that is our doom and pride, As it was when they sailed with the ' Golden Hind,' Or the wreck that struck last tide — Or the wreck that lies on the spouting reef Where the ghastly blue-lights flare. If blood... 
