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London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East

...le his children, the brave ships,
No more adventurous and fair,
Nor tripping it light of heel as home-bound brides,
But infamously enchanted,
Huddle together in the foul eclipse,
Or feel their course by inches desperately,
As through a tangle of alleys murder-haunted,
From sinister reach to reach out -- out -- to sea.
And Death the while --
Death with his well-worn, lean, professional smile,
Death in his threadbare working trim--
Comes to your bedside, unannounced and bland,
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by Henley, William Ernest


The Sale of Saint Thomas

...dream! What men are they? 
I've heard, naught relishes their brains so much 
As to tie down a man and tease his flesh 
Infamously, until a hundred pains 
Hound the desiring life out of his body, 
Filling his nerves with such a fearful zest 
That the soul overstrained shatters beneath it. 
Must I preach God to these murderous hearts? 
I would my lot had fallen to go and dare 
Death from the silent dealing of Northern cold! -- 

O, but I would face all these Indian fears, 
The...Read more of this...
by Abercrombie, Lascelles

To a Fish

...aste; 
And you, all shapes beside, that fishy be,-- 
Some round, some flat, some long, all devilry, 
Legless, unloving, infamously chaste:-- 

O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, 
What is't ye do? What life lead? eh, dull goggles? 
How do ye vary your vile days and nights? 
How pass your Sundays? Are ye still but joggles 
In ceaseless wash? Still nought but gapes, and bites, 
And drinks, and stares, diversified with boggles?...Read more of this...
by Hunt, James Henry Leigh

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