 | Sir John Collings Squire - 1927 - Počet stránok 492
...would not shrink With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering to its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed; Vain, those...of her sons. So, let his name through Europe ring — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. AUBREY DE... | |
 | 1898 - Počet stránok 768
...would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. ; Xr [ -: U ` = v |ݳ = ` S mܟ~ MG i Z ...Z+p Az` _\ k[z v <J َ q } n9 {t : { :k G3> F 9 — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, • Because his soul was great. SIR FRANCIS... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - Počet stránok 1106
...shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Yain prickly round, Can reach to wound ; But as they grow...leaves appear. 1 love to view these things with curiou — A man of mean estate, Who died, as firm as Sparta's king, Because his soul was great. SIR FRANCIS... | |
 | 1914 - Počet stránok 586
...Zealand. The great thing was to preserve or revive the spirit of a race, and he recalled the lines — "Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed ! Vain those...guns ! Unless proud England keep untamed The strong hearts of her sons. ' ' Indians, too, had strong hearts of their own, and he knew Indian sailors could... | |
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Yes, honour calls! — with strength like steel 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... 
