Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Put the saddle on the mare,
For the wet winds blow;
There's winter in the air,
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There is a better thing, dear heart,
Than youthful flush or girlish grace.
There is the faith that never fails,
The courage in the danger place,
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Ten mile in twenty minutes! 'E done it, sir. That's true.
The big bay 'orse in the further stall--the one wot's next to you.
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Here's a keen and grim old huntsman
On a horse as white as snow;
Sometimes he is very swift
And sometimes he is slow.
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The franklin he hath gone to roam, The franklin's maid she bides at home; But she is cold, and coy, and staid, And who may win the franklin's maid?
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It is mine – the little chamber,
Mine alone.
I had it from my forbears
Years agone.
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Said the king to the colonel, 'The complaints are eternal, That you Irish give more trouble Than any other corps.'
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Men of the Twenty-first
Up by the Chalk Pit Wood,
Weak with our wounds and our thirst,
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What of the bow?
The bow was made in England:
Of true wood, of yew-wood,
The wood of English bows;
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What marks the frontier line? Thou man of India, say! Is it the Himalayas sheer,
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The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there,
And warmly debated the matter;
The Orthodox said that it came from the air,
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Who's that walking on the moorland?
Who's that moving on the hill?
They are passing 'mid the bracken,
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Ho! says the Nation's purse is lean,
Who fears for claim or bond or debt,
When all the glories that have been
Are scheduled as a cash asset?
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Faith may break on reason,
Faith may prove a treason
to that highest gift
that is granted by Thy grace;
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Master went a-hunting,
When the leaves were falling;
We saw him on the bridle path,
We heard him gaily calling.
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Pennarby shaft is dark and steep,
Eight foot wide, eight hundred deep.
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God's own best will bide the test
And God's own worst will fall;
But, best or worst or last or first,
He ordereth it all.
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It was the hour of dawn,
When the heart beats thin and small,
The window glimmered grey,
Framed in a shadow wall.
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