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    Songs Of The Road
    Songs Of The Road
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    Songs Of The Road

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. Before starting his writing career, Doyle attended medical school, where he met the professor who would later inspire his most famous creation, Sherlock Holmes. A Study in Scarlet was Doyle's first novel; he would go on to write more than sixty stories featuring Sherlock Holmes. He died in England in 1930.

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      Songs Of The Road - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Songs Of The Road, by Arthur Conan Doyle

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      Title: Songs Of The Road

      Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

      Release Date: July 2, 2007 [EBook #21769]

      Last Updated: December 17, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS OF THE ROAD ***

      Produced by David Widger

      SONGS OF THE ROAD

      BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

      CONTENTS

      I. — NARRATIVE VERSES AND SONGS

      SONGS OF THE ROAD

      A HYMN OF EMPIRE

      SIR NIGEL'S SONG

      THE ARAB STEED

      A POST-IMPRESSIONIST

      EMPIRE BUILDERS

      THE GROOM'S ENCORE

      THE BAY HORSE

      THE OUTCASTS

      THE END

      1902-1909

      THE WANDERER {1}

      BENDY'S SERMON

      II. — PHILOSOPHIC VERSES

      COMPENSATION

      THE BANNER OF PROGRESS

      HOPE

      RELIGIO MEDICI

      MAN'S LIMITATION

      MIND AND MATTER

      DARKNESS

      III — MISCELLANEOUS VERSES

      A WOMAN'S LOVE

      BY THE NORTH SEA

      DECEMBER'S SNOW

      SHAKESPEARE'S EXPOSTULATION

      THE EMPIRE

      A VOYAGE

      THE ORPHANAGE

      SEXAGENARIUS LOQUITUR

      NIGHT VOICES

      THE MESSAGE

      THE ECHO

      ADVICE TO A YOUNG AUTHOR

      A LILT OF THE ROAD

      SONGS OF THE ROAD

      By Arthur Conan Doyle

      Garden City New York

      DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

      1911

      J. C. D.

      THIS-AND-ALL

      February, 1911

      FOREWORD

           If it were not for the hillocks

                  You'd think little of the hills;

           The rivers would seem tiny

                  If it were not for the rills.

           If you never saw the brushwood

                  You would under-rate the trees;

           And so you see the purpose

                  Of such little rhymes as these.

           Crowborough

           1911

      I. — NARRATIVE VERSES AND SONGS

      SONGS OF THE ROAD

      A HYMN OF EMPIRE

      (Coronation Year, 1911)

           God save England, blessed by Fate,

                So old, yet ever young:

           The acorn isle from which the great

                Imperial oak has sprung!

           And God guard Scotland's kindly soil,

                The land of stream and glen,

           The granite mother that has bred

                A breed of granite men!

           God save Wales, from Snowdon's vales

                To Severn's silver strand!

           For all the grace of that old race

                Still haunts the Celtic land.

           And, dear old Ireland, God  save you,

                And heal the wounds of old,

           For every grief you ever knew

                May  joy   come  fifty-fold!

                    Set Thy guard over us,

                    May Thy shield cover us,

                    Enfold and uphold us

                      On land and on sea!

                    From the palm to the pine,

                    From the snow to the line,

                      Brothers together

                      And children of Thee.

           Thy blessing, Lord, on Canada,

                Young giant of the West,

           Still upward lay her broadening way,

                And may her feet be blessed!

           And Africa, whose hero breeds

                Are blending into one,

           Grant that she tread the path which leads

                To holy unison.

           May God protect Australia,

                Set in her Southern Sea!

           Though far thou art, it cannot part

                Thy brother folks from thee.

           And you, the Land of Maori,

                The island-sisters fair,

           Ocean hemmed and lake be-gemmed,

                God hold you in His care!

                    Set Thy guard over us,

                    May Thy shield cover us,

                    Enfold and uphold us

                       On land and on sea!

                    From the palm to the pine,

                    From the snow to the line,

                       Brothers together

                       And children of Thee.

           God guard our Indian brothers,

                The Children of the Sun,

           Guide us and walk beside us,

                Until Thy will be done.

           To all be equal measure,

                Whate'er his blood or birth,

           Till we shall build as Thou hast willed

                O'er all Thy fruitful Earth.

           May we maintain the story

                Of honest, fearless right!

           Not ours, not ours the Glory!

                What are we in Thy sight?

           Thy servants, and no other,

                Thy servants may we be,

           To help our weaker brother,

                As we crave for help from Thee!

                    Set Thy guard over us,

                    May Thy shield cover us,

                    Enfold and uphold us

                       On land and on sea!

                    From

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