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Chantsfortheboer 00 Millrich
Chantsfortheboer 00 Millrich
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
1897-98
THE JAMES
K.
MOFFITT FUND.
Deceived
Accession No. ...8.2.625
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Class
86.
l8 9
No._
CHANTS
FOR THE
BOER
B\
JOAQUIN FILLER
"tAnd
Or
in the battle
San Francisco
The Whitaker & Ray Company
(Incorporated)
1900
Copyright, 190*
by
The Whitaker
&
Ray Company
(Incorporated)
For
For
For
For
the
MOFFITT
82625
my
first,
ill
word
English.
a heart in
land
for
her
man
with
England;
But
who
Eng
deplore this
Take
for
honor
weak.
is
Would
me from aiding.
No one can deny
"
Jameson
failed to
votes,
weapon
in
little
you."
is
shown
who
in
wrong."
Herbert Spencer.
CHANTS
FOR THE BOER
JOAQUIN MILLER
TO THE BOERS.
freedom s battles once begun,
Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft, are ever won"
"for
B YRON.
think
The
priestess
Most
Most
like that
like that
Triumphant o
Chants
For
the
Boer
Defend!
God
And
pride
of
it.
must
fall.
Lo,
it is
writ!
She seeks ye
out.
That
red,
1899.
will
Hill.
Chants
For
the
Boer
1899.
We wish
you well
clothe,
would
feed-
Lay
men
fell
Weeps
When
we approve
fat fed,
when
ye,
ye say
say this blood so bravely shed
Is shed with our consent, take care,
Ye
Lest Truth
To God
is
Lest
all
Freedom
s blood.
care
Chants
For
Boer
the
So
Ye
To
hour
To Freedom
high watchtower.
Not
Not
all
And
left
Not
all
To
*NOTE.
veins.
Brotherhood
"I
thank
am
God
there
Dutchman
Governor of
a
rider Roosevelt,
the Presidency of Us.
10
of
fight for
Who
my
New
to
Chants
For
the
Boer
This Nation
heart, say
its
battle-youth,
who
Of
all
My
Your
dauntless millions.
Him who
Ye
died,
are wise
Ye are, beside,
learned.
As God s anointed in their eyes,
Ye sit so far above their reach.
And
Such
trust!
But are ye
truly true
My
And
And
eyes to book, as
will ye think of
lived so
if
to pray.
Chants
For
the
Boer
Came
in the
Of God,
My
name
that fair
of Peace, the
first
name
Christmas morn?
try to pray?
And
Think
who
but for ye
12
tree;
Chants
For
the
Boer
MOTHER
Dedicated
to
EGYPT.
lids
If
If
let
her weep;
her sleep;
named the stars!
let
To
Go
in
peace
back!
And
You
coin
it
from Nazareth,
strayed.
"
And
into cannon-balls!
leave lorn
Egypt to her
rest."
13
Chants
For
the
Boer
Or
is
Christ dead, as
Egypt
is?
So
like
in
this
slain.
From
Your
lions?
Whence
are they?
To
14
seas swallow
deed.
Chants
For
the
Boer
ANGLO-SAXON ALLIANCE.
England s Colonial Secretary, who must bear a great Part of th e
blame and shame of this Boer war, has said publicly that there is
something like alliance between England and the United Stales.
Our Secretary of State says there is nothing of the sort, and we know
there is not, nor can be, until "We, the People, choose to have it,
and that will not be until this crime against the Boer is forgotten,
as well as Bunker Hill and the Fourth ofJuly.
1
And
Alliance!
with
whom?
For what?
Comes
From Danube
Comes Turk
down
Right
There
Or Judas
There
fair
The Turk,
kiss?
Danube sweeps.
the wild beast sleeps.
blue
Or
serpent
mischief in the air!
this
hiss?
Alliance!
And we
We
Chants
For
the
Boer
There
Alliance!
Just long
enough to
Then music
16
tie
in the air!
Us
fast
Chants
Far
the
Boer
You
sober, industrious
and most
hospitable body
DR. LIVINGSTONE.
And
And
far
An Eden
Lay
of
Chants
For
I
Boer
the
To
Who
And plowed
and gentlemen,
My
From where the Ganges seeks the sea,
Such wails between the notes, I fear,
As you never had cared to hear again.
The dead heaped down in the dried-up
ear,
generals, lords
The
You
wells,
wheels,
The dead
Chants
For
Boer
the
My
generals, lords
and gentlemen,
And
the
And
Saxon
But mark you
!
Were
Were
stolen,
stolen
"
said,
That
is
glittering great
dimmed
throne.
mine own!
Crown
stone,
in this sun,
Young
"
aflying!
19
Chants
For
the
Boer
faith hath
And Love a
Two
things
still
an Olivet
Galilee"
first,
What
shall
Of Saxon when
By God s
What
Who
of ye Saxon nations, ye
prate the Christ most noisily?
And
These Saxon
lies
on top
of
lies,
Ten
Chants
For
the
Boer
AS IT
The
she wolf
IS
Old Africa
is
WRITTEN.
And
heart
still
And
die despised of
men.
Chants
For the Boer
sword a prayer:
old
to-day!
Seventy-five years
Yet mailed young hosts are marshaling there
His shield a
skin, his
To hound down
Oom
Mars!
name
Oom
God
s pity for
Who
Oom
22
Chants
For
the
Boer
Oom
Brave England
s bravest, best,
her Fair,
Who
Oom
Chants
For
the
Boer
sod,
Great Usland
Aye, England
heart
is
yours to-day.
heart of hearts
is
yours,
all
For England
*
triumph means
defeat.
America"
24
"
Chants
For
the
Boer
the
"
line
boundary
am
an Ussian
"Lest
For
if
you don
Now
mark,
he said;
Mister Bull!
bang your head
t I
ll
belly-full.
my
So prone
we forget."
lest
true,"
"
Keep
we forget,
to
"
The
"
"
stout
An
man smole
Ussian!
a frosty smile
"
My
"Aw!
Us."
Usland, Uitland?
or,
maybe,
see
his
map
And shewed
"
I
"
want the
And
all
earth,"
Alaska, too.
25-
Chants
For
the
Boer
"
My
stars
swim up yon
No Shind am
am an Ussian
My
I,
Boer,
seas of blue;
Turk or Russ.
Ussian true;
land the land of Us.
"
till
Hands
26
off the
Land
of
Us!
"
Chants
For
Boer
the
SIZE.
We
boys would
You must
fight,
fight a
but
boy
we had one
of
your
rule
size.
Or
And
he fought such
But never a boy of
He
did,
ye gods forbid
fights
his size.
Now
speaking figure-wise
But he didn t care who and he didn
Just so he was under size.
care where
Then
hair,
am
"A
I,
size."
Then
the
And
That
27-
Chants
For
the
Boer
This board
Beware the
is
about your
size."
-28-
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