CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| DEDICATION TO THE CITY OF BOMBAY | [V] |
| A SONG OF THE ENGLISH | [1] |
| THE FIRST CHANTEY | [18] |
| THE LAST CHANTEY | [21] |
| THE MERCHANTMEN | [26] |
| McANDREWS' HYMN | [31] |
| THE MIRACLES | [46] |
| THE NATIVE-BORN | [48] |
| THE KING | [54] |
| THE RHYME OF THE THREE SEALERS | [57] |
| THE DERELICT | [71] |
| THE SONG OF THE BANJO | [74] |
| "THE LINER SHE'S A LADY" | [80] |
| MULHOLLAND'S CONTRACT | [83] |
| ANCHOR SONG | [87] |
| THE SEA-WIFE | [90] |
| HYMN BEFORE ACTION | [93] |
| TO THE TRUE ROMANCE | [96] |
| THE FLOWERS | [100] |
| THE LAST RHYME OF TRUE THOMAS | [104] |
| THE STORY OF UNG | [113] |
| THE THREE-DECKER | [118] |
| AN AMERICAN | [123] |
| THE MARY GLOSTER | [126] |
| SESTINA OF THE TRAMP-ROYAL | [141] |
| BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS. | |
| "BACK TO THE ARMY AGAIN" | [145] |
| "BIRDS OF PREY" MARCH | [149] |
| "SOLDIER AN' SAILOR TOO" | [152] |
| SAPPERS | [156] |
| THAT DAY | [160] |
| "THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN" | [163] |
| CHOLERA CAMP | [167] |
| THE LADIES | [171] |
| BILL 'AWKINS | [175] |
| THE MOTHER-LODGE | [177] |
| "FOLLOW ME 'OME" | [181] |
| THE SERGEANT'S WEDDIN' | [184] |
| THE JACKET | [187] |
| THE 'EATHEN | [191] |
| THE SHUT-EYE SENTRY | [198] |
| "MARY, PITY WOMEN!" | [202] |
| FOR TO ADMIRE | [205] |
| L'ENVOI | [208] |
The Cities are full of pride,
Challenging each to each—
This from her mountain-side,
That from her burthened beach.
They count their ships full tale—
Their corn and oil and wine,
Derrick and loom and bale,
And rampart's gun-flecked line;
City by city they hail:
"Hast aught to match with mine?"
And the men that breed from them
They traffic up and down,
But cling to their cities' hem
As a child to the mother's gown.