id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 17923 Palgrave, Francis Turner The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History .txt text/plain 44902 3975 89 THE VISIONS OF ENGLAND: LYRICS OF LEADING MEN AND EVENTS IN ENGLISH On thy dear countenance, great mother-land, The nation's old sea-soul beats blithe and strong; the God of Light, like Adonis in the old Greek story, is a nature-myth, God with thee, and the love that casts out fear! Fair star, that crowns the front of England's morn, Kneels as man before God; then takes his long pole-axe, and goes Reckless of life or death, bent only to quit you like men!-Or,--dear to the heart's-blood as first-love or wife,-And the land rejoices below, and the heart-song of England is Peace. And smiled as one who looks through death to life: God's hill above Himalah;--Love green earth And the light of the after-life came again in her eyes, and she said; In the heart of the fields he loved and the hills, France bridled, England saved, thy task ere death! ./cache/17923.txt ./txt/17923.txt