730 RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERSE
"I learned him his trade o' winter nights,
'Twixt Mardyk Fort and Dunkirk lights
On a five-knot tide with the forts a-firing.
(All round the Sands /)
"Before his beard began to shoot, I showed him the length of the Spaniard's foot And I reckon he clapped the boot on it later. (All round the Sands /)
"If there's a risk which you can make, That's worse than he was used to take Nigh every week in the way of his business; (All round the Sands /)
"If there's a trick that you can try, Which he hasn't met in time gone by, Not once or twice, but ten times over; (All round the Sands /)
"If you can teach him aught that's new,
(A-hayO! To me /) I'll give you Bruges and Niewport too, And the ten tall churches that stand between 'em!'
Storm along my gallant Captains !
(All round the Horn /)
THE JUGGLER'S SONG
"HEN the drums begin to beat
Down the street,
When the poles are fetched and guyed, When the tight-rope's stretched and tied, When the dance-girls make salaam, When the snake-bag wakes alarm,
