The Five Nations Book

	Dedication: Before a midnight breaks in storm	v
	The Sea and the Hills: Who hath desired the Sea?--the sight of salt water unbounded	1
	The Bell Buoy: They christened my brother of old	4
	Cruisers: As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine	8
	The Destroyers: The strength of twice three thousand horse	11
	White Horses: Where run your colts at pasture?	15
	The Second Voyage: We've sent our little Cupids all ashore	20
	The Dykes: We have no heart for the fishing, we have no hand for the oar	23
	The Song of Diego Valdez: The God of Fair Beginnings	28
	The Broken Men: For things we never mention	34
	The Feet of the Young Men: Now the Four-way Lodge is opened, now the Hunting Winds are loose	38
	The Truce of the Bear: Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go	44
	The Old Men: This is our lot if we live so long and labour unto the end	49
	The Explorer: "There's no sense in going further--it's the edge of cultivation"	52
	The Wage-Slaves: Oh glorious are the guarded heights	60
	The Burial: When that great Kings return to clay	63
	General Joubert: With those that bred, with those that loosed the strife	65
	The Palace: When I was a King and a Mason--a Master proven and skilled	66
	Sussex: God gave all men all earth to love	69
	Song of the Wise Children: When the darkened Fifties dip to the North	74
	Buddha at Kamakura: Oh ye who tread the Narrow Way	76
	The White Man's Burden: Take up the White Man's burden	79
	Pharaoh and the Sergeant: Said England unto Pharaoh, "I must make a man of you	82
	Our Lady of the Snows: A Nation spoke to a Nation	87
	"Et Dona Ferentes": In extended observation of the ways and works of man	90
	Kitchener's School: Oh Hubshee, carry your shoes in your hand and bow your head on your breast	95
	The Young Queen: Her hand was still on her sword-hilt, the spur was still on her heel	100
	Rimmon: Duly with knees that feign to quake	104
	The Old Issue: "Here is nothing new nor aught unproven," say the Trumpets	107
	Bridge-Guard in the Karroo: Sudden the desert changes	113
	The Lesson: Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should	117
	The Files: Files	121
	The Reformers: Not in the camp his victory lies	126
	Dirge of Dead Sisters: Who recalls the twilight and the ranged tents in order	129
	The Islanders: No doubt but ye are the People--your throne is above the King's	133
	The Peace of Dives: The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay	141
	South Africa: Lived a woman wonderful	149
	The Settler: Here, where my fresh-turned furrows run	153
	Service Songs
	Chant-Pagan: Me that 'ave been what I ve been	159
	M. I.: I wish my mother could see me now, with a fence-post under my arm	163
	Columns: Out o' the wilderness, dusty an' dry	170
	The Parting of the Columns: We've rode and fought and ate and drunk as rations come to hand	175
	Two Kopjes: Only two African kopjes	179
	The Instructor: At times when under cover I 'ave said	183
	Boots: We're foot--slog--slog--slog--slog-gin' over Africa	185
	The Married Man: The bachelor 'e fights for one	188
	Lichtenberg: Smells are surer than sounds or sights	191
	Stellenbosh: The General 'eard the firin' on the flank	194
	Half-Ballad of Waterval: When by the labour of my 'ands	197
	Piet: I do not love my Empire's foes	199
	"Wilful-Missing": There is a world outside the one you know	204
	Ubique: There is a word you often see, pronounce it as you may	206
	The Return: Peace is declared, an' I return	210
	Recessional: God of our fathers, known of old	214