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And wake the world with battle shot - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"

Thrice with craft and fraud - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"

Twice with sword and flame - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"

Launched your bloodhounds on the main - Joaquin Miller "Anglo-Saxon Alliance"

And Hannibal still hero of the Alps - Joaquin Miller "As It Is Written"

Archimedes still holds his measured home - Joaquin Miller "As It Is Written"

The eagle's bent beak at the throat - Joaquin Miller "At the Calend's Close"

Ten millstones to the neck of us - Joaquin Miller "At the Calend's Close"

Heard that song of the Jubilee - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Ten thousand cannon took up the song - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Ten million people came out to see - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Stolen gems that decked the Crown - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Her plowshare eaten up with rust - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

Because the water was under your heels - Joaquin Miller "India and the Boers"

What lessons have you writ in stone - Joaquin Miller "Mother Egypt"

And if the seven plagues should come - Joaquin Miller "Mother Egypt"

Below a star-built arch - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"

Sweet magnolia bloom embalmed in dews - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"

The panther crouching overhead - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"

Half clad in clouds - Joaquin Miller "The Sea of Fire"

Cannot make the false the true - Joaquin Miller "To Oom Paul Kruger"

Fight a million regiments of wrong - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"

Her checkerboard of battle squares - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"

Rimmed round by steel-built battleships - Joaquin Miller "To the Boers"

Exalt each deed of sacrifice - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"

White lilies by the gray hearthstone - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"

To grapple with your tenfold power - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"

Who butcher Peace and barter Truth - Joaquin Miller "To Ye Fighting Lords of London Town"

Fling down that map and measure - Joaquin Miller "Usland to the Boers"

As ever eagle cleaved his way - Joaquin Miller "Usland to the Boers"


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