eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints: Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints; While it's Tommy this, an The United Service - Page 2181897Full view - About this book
| 1892 - 744 pages
...merry swing of the lines delights the ear. Take the following stanza from " Tommy " for instance : "We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards, too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable hke you ; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints. Why,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - English Poetry - 1890 - 294 pages
...it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, etc. We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - English poetry - 1892 - 286 pages
...roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's ' Thin red line of 'eroes' when the drums begin to roll. We aren't no thin red...nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - English poetry - 1893 - 246 pages
...roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's 'Thin red line of 'eroes ' when the drums begin to roll. We aren't no thin red...nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints : Why,... | |
| Oscar Lovell Triggs - Democracy - 1893 - 168 pages
...England, and these ballads of his will not be counted among the least precious of our century's poetry. " We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you." Ballads : Tommy. ^\ But the modern man, as he exists under these... | |
| Alfred Denis Godley - 1894 - 214 pages
...celibate societies, and no Rudyard Kipling has yet arisen to plead on behalf of Fellows that they 1 aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barracks, most remarkable like you.' Altogether the legend of ' monks,' ' port wine and prejudice,' ' dull and deep potations,' and all... | |
| American literature - 1895 - 910 pages
...is no longer a machine in a red uniform — he is a man and a brother. Let him speak for himself: 11 We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 404 pages
...roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's " Thin red line of 'eroes " when the drums begin to roll. We aren't no thin red...nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you ; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 416 pages
...to roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll. We aren't no thin red...nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you ; An' if sometimes ourconduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why,... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1898 - 400 pages
...to roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll. We aren't no thin red...nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you ; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why,... | |
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