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...Thou shalt not laugh, thou shalt not romp, 
Let's grimly kiss with bated breath; 
As quietly and solemnly 
As Life when it is kissing Death. 
Now in the silence of the grave, 
My hand is squeezing that soft breast; 
While thou dost in such passion lie, 
It mocks me with its look of rest.

But when the morning comes at last, 
And we must part, our passions cold, 
You'll think of some new feather, scarf 
To buy with my s...Read more of this...

...When Father Time swings round his scythe,
Entomb me 'neath the bounteous vine,
So that its juices, red and blithe,
May cheer these thirsty bones of mine.

"Elsewise with tears and bated breath
Should I survey the life to be.
But oh! How should I hail the death
That brings that--vinous grace to me!"

So sung the dauntless Saracen,
Whereat the Prophet-Chief ...Read more of this...

...It seemeth such a little way to me
Across to that strange country – the Beyond;
And yet, not strange, for it has grown to be
The home of those whom I am so fond,
They make it seem familiar and most dear,
As journeying friends bring distant regions near.

So close it lies, that when my sight is clear
I think I almost see the gleaming strand.
I know I feel t...Read more of this...

...A knock is at her door, but she is weak;
Strange dews have washed the paint streaks from her cheek;
She does not rise, but, ah, this friend is known,
And knows that he will find her all alone.
So opens he the door, and with soft tread
Goes straightway to the richly curtained bed.
His soft hand on her dewy head he lays.
A strange white light she gives...Read more of this...

...d come any rain, 
You couldn't cross the black-soil plain -- 
You'd have to stop in Booligal." 



"We'd have to stop!" With bated breath 
We prayed that both in life and death 
Our fate in other lines might fall; 
"Oh, send us to our just reward 
In Hay or Hell, but, gracious Lord, 
Deliver us from Booligal!"...Read more of this...

...is riven --
 A "coal-box" blots the "boyou" on my right.
Or else to evil Carnoy I am stealing,
 Past sentinels who hail with bated breath;
Where not a cigarette spark's dim revealing
 May hint our mission in that zone of death.

I see across the shrapnel-seeded meadows
 The jagged rubble-heap of La Boiselle;
Blood-guilty Fricourt brooding in the shadows,
 And Thiepval's chateau empty as a shell.
Down Albert's riven streets the moon is leering;
 The Hanging Virgin takes its bi...Read more of this...

...On the Gilfillan burial day,
In the Hill o' Balgay,
It was a most solemn sight to see,
Not fewer than thirty thousand people assembled in Dundee,
All watching the funeral procession of Gilfillan that day,
That death had suddenly taken away,
And was going to be buried in the Hill o' Balgay. 

There were about three thousand people in the procession alone,
A...Read more of this...

...one hundred. 

And they were supplied with a white flag, fit emblem of death,
Then they started off to O'Neill's farm, with bated breath,
Where their comrades had been left the previous night,
And were lying weltering in their gore, oh! what a horrible sight. 

And when they arrived at the foot of Majuba Hill,
They were stopped by a Boer party, but they meant no ill,
Who asked them what they wanted without dismay,
And when they said, their dead, there was no further delay. 
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...far from this 
Softer lips might kiss. 

All is over! this is death, 
And I stand to watch thee die, 
Brave old horse! with bated breath 
Hardly drawn through tight-clenched teeth, 
Lip indented deep, but eye 
Only dull and dry. 

Musing on the husk and chaff 
Gathered where life’s tares are sown, 
Thus I speak, and force a laugh, 
That is half a sneer and half 
An involuntary groan, 
In a stifled tone— 

‘Rest, old friend! thy day, though rife 
With its toil, hath ended soo...Read more of this...

...fferent of a base intent;
Pull down established honour; hawk for news
Whatever their loose fantasy invent
And murmur it with bated breath, as though
The abounding gutter had been Helicon
Or calumny a song. How can they know
Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone,
And there alone, that have no Solitude?
So the crowd come they care not what may come.
They have loud music, hope every day renewed
And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb....Read more of this...

...od run cold.
To see the children's faces, blackened, that were trampled to death,
And their parents lamenting o'er them with bated breath. 

Oh! it was most lamentable for to hear
The cries of the mothers for their children dear;
And many mothers swooned in grief away
At the sight of their dead children in grim array. 

There was a parent took home a boy by mistake,
And after arriving there his heart was like to break
When it was found to be the body of a neighbour's child;
T...Read more of this...

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