She calls us, still unfed

She calls us, still unfed

W. Heath Robinson

1909

Tipped in color plate

6 3/4 x 5 inches

We have fed our sea for a thousand years,
       And she calls us, still unfed,
Though there's never a wave of all her waves
       But marks our English dead.

Kipling's The Song of the English, p. 51

References

Kipling, Rudyard. The Song of the English. London: Hodder and Stoughton, nd [1909].


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