267
Sohrab
269
The Recognition
272
Ruksh the Horse
275
Rustum
277
Night
280
CIX. FLEE FRO' THE PRESS
282
WILLIAM CORY (b. 1823).
CX. SCHOOL FENCIBLES 284
CXI. THE TWO CAPTAINS 285
GEORGE MEREDITH (b. 1828).
CXII. THE HEAD OF BRAN 290
WILLIAM MORRIS (b. 1834).
CXIII. THE SLAYING OF THE NIBLUNGS
Hogni
293
Gunnar
297
Gudrun
301
The Sons of Giuki
304
ALFRED AUSTIN (b. 1835).
CXIV. IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? 308
SIR ALFRED LYALL (b. 1835).
CXV. THEOLOGY IN EXTREMIS 311
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE (b. 1837).
CXVI. THE OBLATION 316
CXVII. ENGLAND 317
CXVIII. THE JACOBITE IN EXILE 319
BRET HARTE (b. 1839).
CXIX. THE REVEILLÉ 322
CXX. WHAT THE BULLET SANG 323
AUSTIN DOBSON (b. 1840).
CXXI. A BALLAD OF THE ARMADA 324
ANDREW LANG (b. 1844).
CXXII. THE WHITE PACHA 325
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (b. 1850).
CXXIII. MOTHER AND SON 326
HENRY CHARLES BEECHING (b. 1859).
CXXIV. PRAYERS 328
RUDYARD KIPLING (b. 1865).
CXXV. A BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST 329
CXXVI. THE FLAG OF ENGLAND 335
NOTES 341
INDEX 359
For I trust, if an enemy's fleet came yonder round by the hill, And the
rushing battle-bolt sang from the three-decker out of the foam, That the
smooth-faced snub-nosed rogue would leap from his counter and
till,
And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yard-wand,
home.
_Tennyson._
LYRA HEROICA
I
AGINCOURT
INTROIT
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of
invention,
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act
And monarchs to
behold the swelling scene!
Then should the warlike Harry, like
himself,
Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels,
Leashed in like
hounds, should Famine, Sword and Fire
Crouch for employment. But
pardon, gentles all,
The flat unraisèd spirits that have dared
On this
unworthy scaffold to bring forth
So
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