Lyra Heroica a book of Verse for Boys Sel And Arranged By William Ernest Henl
Lyra Heroica a book of Verse for Boys Sel And Arranged By William Ernest Henl
Henley, William Ernest, 1849-1903
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xcvi THE PRIVATE OF THE BUFFS LAST night, among his fellow roughs, He jested, quaffed, and swore ; A drunken private of the Buffs, Who never looked before. To-day, beneath the foeman' s frown, He stands in Elgin's place, Ambassador from Britain's crown And type of all her race. Poor, reckless, rude, low-born, untaught, Bewildered, and alone, A heart, with English instinct fraught, He yet can call his own. DOYLE 241 Ay, tear his body limb from limb, Bring cord, or axe, or flame : He only knows, ...that not through him Shall England come to shame. Far Kentish hop-fields round him seemed, Like dreams, to come and go ; Bright leagues of cherry-blossom gleamed, One sheet of living snow ; The smoke, above his father's door, In grey soft eddyings hung : Must he then watch it rise no more, Doomed by himself, so young ? Yes, honour calls ! with strength like steel He put the vision by. Let dusky Indians whine and kneel ; An English lad must die. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went.
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