{"product_id":"2940013412545","title":"THE YEARS BETWEEN by Rudyard Kipling","description":"• Table of contents with working links to chapters is included\u003cbr\u003e• The book has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors\u003cbr\u003e• New and improved version\u003cbr\u003e• Illustrated book with resized images for the NOOK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe banked oars fell an hundred strong,\u003cbr\u003eAnd backed and threshed and ground,\u003cbr\u003eBut bitter was the rowers' song\u003cbr\u003eAs they brought the war-boat round.\u003cbr\u003eThey had no heart for the rally and roar\u003cbr\u003eThat makes the whale-bath smoke—\u003cbr\u003eWhen the great blades cleave and hold and leave\u003cbr\u003eAs one on the racing stroke.\u003cbr\u003eThey sang:—'What reckoning do you keep,\u003cbr\u003eAnd steer her by what star,\u003cbr\u003eIf we come unscathed from the Southern deep\u003cbr\u003e    To be wrecked on a Baltic bar?\u003cbr\u003e'Last night you swore our voyage was done,\u003cbr\u003eBut seaward still we go,\u003cbr\u003eAnd you tell us now of a secret vow\u003cbr\u003eYou have made with an open foe!\u003cbr\u003e'That we must lie off a lightless coast\u003cbr\u003eAnd haul and back and veer,\u003cbr\u003eAt the will of the breed that have wronged us most\u003cbr\u003eFor a year and a year and a year!\u003cbr\u003e'There was never a shame in Christendie\u003cbr\u003eThey laid not to our door—\u003cbr\u003eAnd you say we must take the winter sea\u003cbr\u003eAnd sail with them once more?\u003cbr\u003e'Look South! The gale is scarce o'erpast\u003cbr\u003e    That stripped and laid us down,\u003cbr\u003eWhen we stood forth but they stood fast\u003cbr\u003eAnd prayed to see us drown\u003cbr\u003e'Our dead they mocked are scarcely cold,\u003cbr\u003eOur wounds are bleeding yet—\u003cbr\u003eAnd you tell us now that our strength is sold\u003cbr\u003eTo help them press for a debt'\u003cbr\u003e''Neath all the flags of all mankind\u003cbr\u003eThat use upon the seas,\u003cbr\u003eWas there no other fleet to find\u003cbr\u003eThat you strike hands with these?\u003cbr\u003e'Of evil times that men can choose\u003cbr\u003eOn evil fate to fall,\u003cbr\u003eWhat brooding Judgment let you loose\u003cbr\u003eTo pick the worst of all?\u003cbr\u003e'In sight of peace—from the Narrow Seas\u003cbr\u003e    O'er half the world to run—\u003cbr\u003eWith a cheated crew, to league anew\u003cbr\u003eWith the Goth and the shameless Hun!'","brand":"Unforgotten Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070023909616,"sku":"2940013412545","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013412545_p0.jpg?v=1763580914","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013412545","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}