 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1897 - 876 pages
...note is in the third stanza — Far-called our navies melt away, On dune and headland sinks the fire. Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! To compare a festival with a nation is fantastic, and spoils the simplicity of the poem. It looks... | |
 | 1918 - 498 pages
...know how to pray will find appropriate expression for a timely petition in Kipling's Recessional : "If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues...without the Law — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget.' AHR NOTES OF IMPORTANT DECISIONS. SHIPS AND SHIPPING — LIABILITY... | |
 | 1922 - 694 pages
...away — On dune and headland sinks the fire — Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Ninevah and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget! For heathen heart that puts her trust In recking tube and iron shard — All valiant dust that... | |
 | 1899 - 870 pages
...lest we forget! "Far-called our navies melt away, On dune and headland sinks the fire; — Lo, all the pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge...Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!" I hardly know of anything in the history of literature so dramatic, so powerfully and nobly... | |
 | 1912 - 810 pages
...forget — lest we forget ! Far-called our navies melt away — On dune and headland sinks the fire — Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh...power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in aweSuch boasting as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the law — Lord God of Hosts, be with... | |
 | 1898 - 686 pages
...forget — lest we forget ! Far-called our navies melt away — On dune and headland sinks the fire — Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh...power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in aweSuch boasting as the Gentiles use Or lesser breeds without the Law — Lord God of Hosts, be with... | |
 | 1897 - 630 pages
...vanity, to be as regardful of the rights of others as if we were neither powerful nor wealthy, to shun 'Such boasting as the Gentiles use Or lesser breeds without the Law,' — these are the conditions upon which our dominion by sea and land is based even more than on fleets... | |
 | 1909 - 494 pages
...attend to the beam in her own eye, and incidentally to protect herself against her sisters' motes. "If drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe, Such boastings as the Gentiles use, Or lesser creeds without the Law, Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,... | |
 | 1898 - 670 pages
...we forget ! Far-called, our navies melt away — On dune and headland sinks the fire — Oh, all the pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! Judge...Thee in awe, Such boasting as the Gentiles use Or leaser breeds without the law — Lord God of Host be with us yet, Lest we forget — leet we forget.... | |
 | 1900 - 728 pages
...the flag" in new lands, and when the demagogic cry is raised, <( Who will pull down the flag ? » * If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues...without the Law, — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet. Lest we forget — lest we forget ! • The « Recessional M stands for the Divine ideal of manhood... | |
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Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget... 
