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SONGS OF ACTION
Contents:
The Song Of The Bow
Cremona
The Storming Party
The Frontier

Line
Corporal Dick's Promotion
A Forgotten Tale
Pennarby Mine

A Rover Chanty
A Ballad Of The Ranks
A Lay Of The Links

The Dying Whip
Master
H.M.S. 'Foudroyant'
The Farnshire Cup

The Groom's Story
With the Chiddingfolds
A Hunting Morning

The Old Gray Fox
'Ware Holes
The Home-coming of the
'Eurydice'
The Inner Room
The Irish Colonel
The Blind Archer

A Parable
A Tragedy
The Passing
The Franklin's Maid
The Old
Huntsman
THE SONG OF THE BOW
What of the bow?
The bow was made in England:
Of true wood, of yew-wood,
The wood of English bows;
So men who are free
Love the old yew-tree
And the land where the
yew-tree grows.
What of the cord?
The cord was made in England:
A rough cord, a tough cord,
A cord that bowmen love;
And so