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... sown with Kamal's men . " There is rock to the left , and rock to the right , and low lean thorn between , ' And ye may hear a breech - bolt snick where never a man is seen . ' The Colonel's son has taken a horse , and a 4 THE BALLAD OF.
... sown with Kamal's men . " There is rock to the left , and rock to the right , and low lean thorn between , ' And ye may hear a breech - bolt snick where never a man is seen . ' The Colonel's son has taken a horse , and a 4 THE BALLAD OF.
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Rudyard Kipling. The Colonel's son has taken a horse , and a raw rough dun was he , With the mouth of a bell and the heart of Hell , and the head of the gallows - tree . The Colonel's son to the Fort has won , they bid him stay to eat ...
Rudyard Kipling. The Colonel's son has taken a horse , and a raw rough dun was he , With the mouth of a bell and the heart of Hell , and the head of the gallows - tree . The Colonel's son to the Fort has won , they bid him stay to eat ...
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... horse on the standing crop , their men on the garnered grain , " The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain . ' But if thou thinkest the price be fair , thy brethren wait to sup , " The hound is kin to ...
... horse on the standing crop , their men on the garnered grain , " The thatch of the byres will serve their fires when all the cattle are slain . ' But if thou thinkest the price be fair , thy brethren wait to sup , " The hound is kin to ...
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... horse's hoofs , The harlots of the town had hailed him ' butcher ! ' from their roofs . But as he groped against the wall , two hands upon him fell , The King behind his shoulder spoke : ' Dead man , thou dost not well ! " Tis ill to ...
... horse's hoofs , The harlots of the town had hailed him ' butcher ! ' from their roofs . But as he groped against the wall , two hands upon him fell , The King behind his shoulder spoke : ' Dead man , thou dost not well ! " Tis ill to ...
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... With the sliding puffs from the hookah - mouth . Four things greater than all things are , Women and Horses and Power and War . ― We spake of them all , but the last the most , For I sought a word of a Russian post , 26 THE BALLAD OF.
... With the sliding puffs from the hookah - mouth . Four things greater than all things are , Women and Horses and Power and War . ― We spake of them all , but the last the most , For I sought a word of a Russian post , 26 THE BALLAD OF.
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