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INDEX TO FIRST LINES

• About the time that taverns shut, 279
• A farmer of the Augustan Age, 89
• After the sack of the City, when Rome was sunk to a name, 256
• All day long to the judgment-seat, 86
• All the world over, nursing their scars, 138
• Alone upon the housetops to the North, 234
• And if ye doubt the tale I tell, 136
• 'And some are sulky, while some will plunge', 32
• And they were stronger hands than mine, 235
• As Adam lay a-dreaming beneath the Apple Tree, 301
• As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled, 294
• A stone's throw out on either hand, 34
• At the hole where he went in, 249


• Beat off in our last fight were we?, 79
• Because I sought it far from men, 80
• Bees! Bees! Hark to your bees!, 172
• Before my spring I garnered autumn's gain, 135
• Between the waving tufts of jungle-grass, 133
• By the Hoof of the Wild Goat uptossed, 217


• China-going P. and O.'s, 189
• Cities and Thrones and Powers, vii
• Cry 'Murder' in the market-place, and each, 31

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• Dark children of the mere and marsh, 133


• Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid, 45
• Ere Mor the Peacock flutters, ere the Monkey People cry, 204
• Excellent herbs had our fathers of old, 127
• Eyes aloft, over dangerous places, 228


• For a season there must be pain, 200
• For our white and our excellent nights--for the nights
  of swift running, 248
• For the sake of him who showed, 56
• From the wheel and the drift of Things, 202


• 'Gold is for the mistress--silver for the maid', 36
• Go, stalk the red deer o'er the heather, 31


• Harry, our King in England, from London town is gone, 272
• He drank strong waters and his speech was coarse, 35
• Here come I to my own again, 151
• Here we go in a flung festoon, 92
• His spots are the joy of the Leopard: his horns are the
  Buffalo's pride, 245
• 'How far is St. Helena from a little child at play?', 66


• I am the land of their fathers, 1
• I am the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in most wise tones, 184
• I closed and drew for my love's sake, 17
• 'If I have taken the common clay', 84
• If I were hanged on the highest hill, 237
• I followed my Duke ere I was a lover, 19
• If Thought can reach to Heaven, 170
• If you can keep your head when all about you, 149
• If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, 269
• I have been given my charge to keep, 50
• I keep six honest serving-men, 185
• I know not in Whose hands are laid, 154
• I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I am old!), 161

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• I'm just in love with all these three, 8
• In the daytime, when she moved about me, 34
• 'I see the grass shake in the sun for leagues on either
  hand', 28
• I tell this tale, which is strictly true, 266
• It was not in the open fight, 33
• I've never sailed the Amazon, 188
• I was very well pleased with what I knowed, 10
• I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines, 241
• I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chain, 251


• Jubal sang of the Wrath of God, 112


• Land of our Birth, we pledge to thee, 143
• 'Less you want your toes trod off you'd better get back
• at once', 138
• 'Let us now praise famous men', 116
• Life's all getting and giving, 215
• Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these, 30


• Man goes to Man! Cry the challenge through the Jungle!, 249
• Mithras, God of the Morning, our trumpets waken the Wall!, 52
• Much I owe to the Land that grew, 159
• My Brother kneels, so saith Kabir, 303
• My father's father saw it not, 96
• My new-cut ashlar takes the light, 43


• Neither the harps nor the crowns amused, nor the cherubs'
  dove-winged races, 174
• Not though you die to-night, O Sweet, and wail, 32
• Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining, 71
• Now Chil the Kite brings home the night, 245
• Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle
  the Aryan brown, 79

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• Now this is the Law of the Jungle--as old and as true as
  the sky, 120
• Now we are come to our Kingdom, 15


• Of all the trees that grow so fair, 21
• Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us, 250
• Oh, light was the world that he weighed in his hands!, 39
• Oh, little did the Wolf-Child care, 243
• Old Horn to All Atlantic said, 285


• 'Old Mother Laidinwool had nigh twelve months been dead', 179
• Once a ripple came to land, 226
• Once we feared The Beast--when he followed us we ran, 296
• One man in a thousand, Solomon says, 62
• One moment past our bodies cast, 223
• Our Fathers in a wondrous age, 130
• Our gloves are stiff with the frozen blood, 292
• Our Lord Who did the Ox command, 41
• Our sister sayeth such and such, 232
• Over the edge of the purple down, 198


• Pit where the buffalo cooled his hide, 35
• Prophets have honour all over the Earth, 111
• Pussy can sit by the fire and sing, 190


• Queen Bess was Harry's daughter. Stand forward partners
  all!, 193


• Ride with an idle whip, ride with an unused heel, 33
• Rome never looks where she treads, 98
• Roses red and roses white, 225


• See you the ferny ride that steals, 3
• She dropped the bar, she shot the bolt, she fed the fire
  anew, 238
• Shiv, who poured the harvest and made the winds to blow, 48
• Shove off from the wharf-edge! Steady!, 219

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• Singer and tailor am I, 299
• So we settled it all when the storm was done, 83
• 'Stopped in the straight when the race was his own!', 31
• Strangers drawn from the ends of the earth, jewelled and
  plumed were we, 12
• Take of English earth as much, 26
• Tell it to the locked-up trees, 24
• The beasts are very wise, 143
• The Camel's hump is an ugly lump, 182
• The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo, 73
• The doors were wide, the story saith, 135
• The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break
  in fire, 114
• The lark will make her hymn to God, 84
• The Law whereby my lady moves, 230
• The night we felt the earth would move, 253
• The People of the Eastern Ice, they are melting like the
  snow, 252
• There are three degrees of bliss, 156
• There is pleasure in the wet, wet clay, 81
• There is sorrow enough in the natural way, 168
• There runs a road by Merrow Down, 176
• There's a convict more in the Central Jail, 137
• There's no wind along these seas, 290
• There was a strife 'twixt man and maid, 81
• There was never a Queen like Balkis, 191
• There were three friends that buried the fourth, 85
• These are the Four that are never content, that have
  never been filled since the Dews began, 248
• These were my companions going forth by night, 69
• The Stranger within my gate, 100
• The stream is shrunk--the pool is dry, 246
• The torn boughs trailing o'er the tusks aslant, 133
• The Weald is good, the Downs are best, 9
• The wind took off with the sunset, 254

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• The wolf-cub at even lay hid in the corn, 84
• The World hath set its heavy yoke, 32
• They burnt a corpse upon the sand, 33
• They killed a child to please the Gods, 132
• They shut the road through the woods, 6
• This I saw when the rites were done, 79
• This is the mouth-filling song of the race that was run
  by a Boomer, 186
• Three things make earth unquiet, 124
• Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peoples, Kings, 94
• To-night, God knows what thing shall tide, 34
• To the Heavens above us, 164


• Unto whose use the pregnant suns are poised, 136


• Valour and Innocence, 196
• Veil them, cover them, wall them round, 247


• We be the Gods of the East, 82
• We lent to Alexander the strength of Hercules, 145
• We meet in an evil land, 78
• What is a woman that you forsake her, 60
• What is the moral? Who rides may read, 64
• What of the hunting, hunter bold?, 247
• 'What's that that hirples at my side?', 283
• When a lover hies abroad, 81
• When first by Eden Tree, 140
• When I left home for Lalage's sake, 102
• When the cabin port-holes are dark and green, 182
• When the drums begin to beat, 288
• When the Earth was sick and the Skies were grey, 30
• When the Great Ark, in Vigo Bay, 109
• When the robust and Brass-bound Man commissioned first
  for sea, 263
• When the water's countenance, 277
• When ye say to Tabaqui, 'My Brother!' when ye call the
  Hyena to meat, 252

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• Where's the lamp that Hero lit 157
• Who gives him the Bath? 54
• Who knows the heart of the Christian? How does he reason? 75


• Yet at the last, ere our spearmen had found him 85
• You mustn't swim till you're six weeks old 250
• Your jar of Virginny 105
• Your tiercel's too long at hack, Sir. He's no eyass 206