that guide us lord let their faith hymn before action if wrong we did to call them by honour bound they came let not thy wrath befall them but deal to us the blame from panic pride and terror revenge that knows no rein light haste and lawless error protect us yet again cloak thou our make firm the shuddering breath in silence and to taste thy lesser death ah mary pierced with sorrow remember reach and save the soul that comes to morrow before the god that gave since each was born of woman for each at utter need � true comrade and true e en now their e en now we face the � as thou help our fathers help thou our host to day fulfilled of signs and wonders in life in death made clear of the lord god of battles hear to the true romance thy face is far from this our war our call and counter cry i shall not find thee quick and kind nor know thee till i die enough for me in dreams to see and touch thy garments hem thy feet have trod so near to god i may not follow them through if men profess they weary of thy parts e en let them die at and perish with their arts but we that love but we that prove thine excellence august while we discover more thee perfect wise and just since spoken word man s spirit stirred beyond his belly need what is is thine of fair design in thought and craft and deed by d ft co to the true romance each stroke aright of toil and fight that was and that shall be and hope too high wherefore we die has birth and worth in thee who holds by thee hath heaven in fee to his thereby and knowledge sure that he endure a child until he die � for to make plain that man s disdain is but new beauty s birth � � for to possess in loneliness the joy of all the earth as thou teach all lovers speech and life all mystery so shalt thou rule by every school till love and longing die who or yet the lights were set a whisper in the void who shalt be sung through young when this is clean destroyed beyond the bounds our staring rounds across the pressing dark the children wise of outer skies look and mark a light that a glare that thus and thus not all forlorn for thou hast borne strange tales to them of us to the true romance time hath no tide but must abide the servant of thy will tide hath no time for to thy rhyme the stars stand still � of that lock our fears our hopes invisible oh twas at thy we fashioned heaven and hell i pure wisdom hath no certain path that thy morning and captains bold by thee controlled most like to gods design thou art the voice to boys to lift them through the fight and of to give the dead good a veil to draw god his law and man s infirmity a shadow kind to dumb and blind the where we die a rule to trick th too base of � the spur of trust the of lust thou of the gods o charity all patiently abiding and o faith that meets ten thousand yet drops no of faith i to the true romance devil and brute thou dost to higher show who art in that lovely truth the careless angels know thy face is far from this our war our call and counter cry i may not find thee quick and hind nor know thee till i die yet may i look with heart on blow brought home or missed yet may i hear with equal ear the down the list yet set my lance above and ride the � oh hit or miss how little tis my lady is not there i � the flowers to our private taste there is always something a almost artificial in songs which under an english aspect and dress are yet so the product of other skies they affect us like the very and are alien remote the dog s tooth violet is but an ill substitute for the nor can we ever believe thai the wood sings as sweetly in april as the english � the buy my english and may � of the wet with channel spray from a � buy my english and i ll your heart s desire buy my english you that scorn the may won t you greet a friend from home half the world away the flowers green against the drift faint and frail and first � buy my northern blood root and i ll know where you were nursed robin down the road come to me spring has found the grove the sap is running free all the winds of canada call the rain take the flower and turn the hour and kiss your love again buy my english here s to match your need buy a of royal heath buy a bunch of weed white as sand of spun before the gale � buy my heath and lilies and i ll tell you whence you hail under hot broad the lie � and the aching the sky � slow below the the � take the flower and turn the hour and kiss your love again buy my english you that will not turn � buy my hot wood buy a o the flowers gathered where the leaps down the road to � buy my christmas and i ll say where you were born west away from dust holidays begin � they that mock at paradise at � through the great south sings the great south main � take the flower and turn the hour and loss your love again buy my english 