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Excerpt: ...whose use the pregnant suns are poised, With idiot moons and stars retracting stars? Creep thou between-thy coming's all unnoised. Heaven hath her high, as Earth her baser, wars. Heir to these tumults, this affright, that fray (By Adam's, fathers', own, sin bound alway); Peer up, draw out thy horoscope and say Which planet mends thy threadbare fate, or mars. MANY INVENTIONS And if ye doubt the tale I tell, Steer through the South Pacific swell; Go where the branching coral hives Unending strife of endless lives, Where, leagued about the 'wildered boat, The rainbow jellies fill and float; And, lilting where the laver lingers, The starfish trips on all her fingers; Where, 'neath his myriad spines ashock, The sea-egg ripples down the rock; An orange wonder daily guessed, From darkness where the cuttles rest, Moored o'er the darker deeps that hide The blind white sea-snake and his bride Who, drowsing, nose the long-lost ships Let down through darkness to their lips. A Matter of Fact. There's a convict more in the Central Jail, Behind the old mud wall; There's a lifter less on the Border trail, And the Queen's peace over all, Dear boys, The Queen's peace over all! For we must bear our leader's blame, On us the shame will fall, If we lift our hand from a fettered land And the Queen's peace over all, Dear boys, The Queen's peace over all! The Lost Legion. 'Less you want your toes trod off you'd better get back at once, For the bullocks are walking two by two, The byles are walking two by two, And the elephants bring the guns. Ho! Yuss! Great-big-long-black-forty-pounder guns: Jiggery-jolty to and fro, Each as big as a launch in tow- Blind-dumb-broad-breeched-beggars o' battering-guns. My Lord the Elephant. All the world over, nursing their scars, Sit the old fighting-men broke in the wars- Sit the old fighting men, surly and grim Mocking the lilt of the conquerors' hymn. Dust of the battle o'erwhelmed them and hid. Fame never found them...

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