s: On tugged the good friar, but nigher and nigher


s: Appeared the fierce Russians, with sword and with fire.


s: On tugged the good prior at Saint Sophy's desire,--


s: A scramble through bramble, through mud, and through mire,


s: The swift arrows' whizziness causing a dizziness,


s: Father Hyacinth tugged, and the monks they tugged after:


s: The foemen pursued with a horrible laughter,


s: And hurl'd their long spears round the poor brethren's ears,


s: So true, that next day in the coats of each priest,


s: Though never a wound was given, there were found


s: When that his steed is spent and punished sore,


s: Diggeth his heels into the courser's sides,


s: And thereby makes him run one or two furlongs more;


s: Even thus, betwixt the eighth rib and the ninth,


s: The saint rebuked the prior, that weary creeper;


s: Fresh strength into his limbs her kicks imparted,


s: One bound he made, as gay as when he started.


s: Yes, with his brethren clinging at his cloak,


s: The statue on his shoulders--fit to choke--


s: One most tremendous bound made Hyacinth,


s: And soused friars, statue, and all, slap-dash into the Dnieper!


s: Panting and fierce, drew up along the shore;


s: (For here the vain pursuing they forbore,


s: Nor cared they to surpass the river's bank,)


s: Then, looking from the rocks and rushes dank,


s: A sight they witnessed never seen before,


s: And which, with its accompaniments glorious,


s: Is writ i' the golden book, or liber aureus.


s: Plump in the Dnieper flounced the friar and friends--


s: They dangling round his neck, he fit to choke.


s: Down from his shoulders quietly descends


s: Which, sitting down upon the cloak so ample,


s: Bids all the brethren follow its example!


s: Each at her bidding sat, and sat at ease;


s: The statue 'gan a gracious conversation,


s: Sail'd with her wondering happy protégés


s: Until they came unto some friendly nation.


s: And when the heathen had at length grown shy of


s: Their conquest, she one day came back again to Kioff.


s: With twenty pounds but three weeks since


s: "La note," at times the guests will say.


s: The church-door beggar whines and prays,


s: Sing for poor maiden-hearts broken and weary;


s: And always remember to take the door-key.


s: Ye pathrons of janius, Minerva and Vanius,


s: Who sit on Parnassus, that mountain of snow,


s: Descind from your station and make observation


s: Of the Prince's pavilion in sweet Pimlico.


s: This garden, by jakurs, is forty poor acres,


s: (The garner he tould me, and sure ought to know;)


s: And yet greatly bigger, in size and in figure,


s: Than the Phanix itself, seems the Park Pimlico.


s: O 'tis there that the spoort is, when the Queen and the Court is


s: Forgetful what state is among the pataties


s: And the pine-apple gardens of sweet Pimlico.


s: There in blossoms odorous the birds sing a chorus,


s: Of "God save the Queen" as they hop to and fro;


s: And you sit on the binches and hark to the finches,


s: There shuiting their phanthasies, they pluck polyanthuses


s: That round in the gardens resplindently grow,


s: Wid roses and jessimins, and other sweet specimins,


s: Would charm bould Linnayus in sweet Pimlico.


s: You see when you inther, and stand in the cinther,


s: Where the roses, and necturns, and collyflowers blow,


s: A hill so tremindous, it tops the top-windows


s: And when you've ascinded that precipice splindid


s: You see on its summit a wondtherful show--


s: A lovely Swish building, all painting and gilding,


s: Prince Albert, of Flandthers, that Prince of Commandthers,


s: (On whom my best blessings hereby I bestow,)


s: With goold and vermilion has decked that Pavilion,


s: Where the Queen may take tay in her sweet Pimlico.


s: There's lines from John Milton the chamber all gilt on,


s: And pictures beneath them that's shaped like a bow;


s: I was greatly astounded to think that that Roundhead


s: Should find an admission to famed Pimlico.


s: O lovely's each fresco, and most picturesque O;


s: And while round the chamber astonished I go,


s: I think Dan Maclise's it baits all the pieces


s: Surrounding the cottage of famed Pimlico.


s: Eastlake has the chimney, (a good one to limn he,)


s: And a vargin he paints with a sarpent below;


s: While bulls, pigs, and panthers, and other enchanthers,


s: Are painted by Landseer in sweet Pimlico.


s: And nature smiles opposite, Stanfield he copies it;


s: O'er Claude or Poussang sure 'tis he that may crow:


s: But Sir Ross's best faiture is small mini-áture--


s: He shouldn't paint frescoes in famed Pimlico.


s: There's Leslie and Uwins has rather small doings;


s: There's Dyce, as brave masther as England can show;


s: And the flowers and the sthrawherries, sure he no dauber is,


s: That painted the panels of famed Pimlico.


s: In the pictures from Walther Scott, never a fault there's got,


s: Sure the marble's as natural as thrue Scaglio;


s: And the Chamber Pompayen is sweet to take tay in,


s: And ait butther'd muffins in sweet Pimlico.


s: There's landscapes by Gruner, both solar and lunar,


s: Them two little Doyles too, deserve a bravo;


s: Wid de piece by young Townsend, (for janins abounds in't;)


s: And that's why he's shuited to paint Pimlico.


s: That picture of Severn's is worthy of rever'nce,


s: But some I won't mintion is rather so so;


s: For sweet philoso'phy, or crumpets and coffee,


s: O where's a Pavilion like sweet Pimlico?


s: O to praise this Pavilion would puzzle Quintilian,


s: Daymosthenes, Brougham, or young Cicero;


s: So heavenly Goddess, d'ye pardon my modesty,


s: And silence, my lyre! about sweet Pimlico.


s: They're bint, the blagyards, to desthroy,


s: They're goin to kill the Viceroy, Dear boy;


s: As he weaves his cocked-hat from the windies,


s: All shoining with sthripes and with stars,


s: When they read of this news in the peepers,


s: Of the oisland of Seents has tuck lave.  God save


s: And what's to become of poor Dame Sthreet,


s: And who'll have the fiddlers and pipers,


s: When the deuce of a Coort there remains?


s: And where'll be the bucks and the ladies,


s: To hire the Coort-shuits and the thrains?


s: For her dthress, and her flounce, and her tail;


s: When Spring, with its buds and its dasies,


s: 'Twas they gave the Clart and the Poort,


s: And the poine-apples, turbots, and lobsters,


s: Yes, the grooms and the ushers are goin,


s: And little Lord Hyde and the childthren,


s: And the servants are packing their boxes,--


s: "We'll show the blacks," says they, "Almack's,


s: With flags and shawls, for these Nepauls,


s: And decked the walls, and stairs, and halls,


s: And soft bassoons played heavenly chunes,


s: And fixed each oye, ye there could spoi,


s: O Pat, such girls, such Jukes, and Earls,


s: There was Baroness Brunow, that looked like Juno,


s: And Countess Roullier, that looked peculiar


s: There was Lord Crowhurst (I knew him first,


s: There was Lord Fingall, and his ladies all,


s: There was Lord Belfast, that by me past,


s: And seemed to ask how should I go there?


s: Yes, Jukes, and Earls, and diamonds, and pearls,


s: And Ireland's desolation onsaysingly deplore;


s: Attend to the thransaction upon Shannon shore,


s: With cannon and with thunder on our city bore,


s: To respict the galliant Irish upon Shannon shore.


s: So grand a reputation could boast before,


s: And the ships up to the windies of the Shannon shore.


s: Reprisints this darling Limerick, this ten years or more:


s: And thrimble at the Cicero from Shannon shore!


s: That land of Revolution, that grows the tricolor;


s: We invited him to tay on the Shannon shore.


s: 'Tis he will sheathe that battle-axe in Saxon gore;


s: To dthrink a dish of coffee on the Shannon shore.


s: We tuck the opportunity of Tim Doolan's store;


s: We made the loveliest tay-room upon Shannon shore.


s: The sugar-tongs and sangwidges and craim galyore,


s: To celebrate the sworry upon Shannon shore.


s: That Misthress Biddy Rooney for O'Brine did pour;


s: Mitchil dthrank six quarts of it--by Shannon shore.


s: With rage and imulation in their black hearts' core;


s: And the fragrance of the Congo on the Shannon shore.


s: But juice a one could hear him, for a sudden roar


s: And frighten the propriety of Shannon shore.


s: Tim Doolan's doors and windies down they tore;


s: Purshuing of their shindies upon Shannon shore.


s: These ruffin democrats themselves did lower;


s: They flung among the patriots of Shannon shore.


s: And the honorable gintlemin, they cursed and swore:


s: When they roasted him in effigy by Shannon shore.


s: Says Jack Mitchil, "I am kilt!  Boys, where's the back door?


s: And he boulted with quick pace from the Shannon shore.


s: "This conduct would disgrace any blackamore;"


s: Was to cut his own stick from the Shannon shore.


s: 'Twould have done your sowl good to have heard him roar;


s: But they hit him on the nose by the Shannon shore.


s: With their music playing chunes, down upon us bore;


s: And ended the shaloo on the Shannon shore.


s: Sent by a Young Gentleman of Quality to Miss Br-dy, of Castle


s: It is the loveliest flower that blows,--


s: In Brady's towers there's seven more flowers,


s: Not all the county, nor Ireland's bounty,


s: Can projuice a treasure that's half so fair!"


s: What cheek is redder? sure roses fed her!


s: Her hair is maregolds, and her eye of blew.


s: Than Nora's neck is,--and her arrums too.


s: "Come, gentle Nora," says the goddess Flora,


s: Who spends his lifetime in heavy sighs,--


s: Young Redmond Barry, 'tis him you'll marry,


s: If rhyme and raisin you'd choose likewise."


s: As I think of the insult that's done to this nation,


s: Red tears of rivinge from me fatures I wash,


s: And uphold in this pome, to the world's daytistation,


s: The sleeves that appointed PROFESSOR M'COSH.


s: I look round me counthree, renowned by exparience,


s: And see midst her childthren, the witty, the wise,--


s: Whole hayps of logicians, potes, schollars, grammarians,


s: All ayger for pleeces, all panting to rise;


s: I gaze round the world in its utmost diminsion;


s: LARD JAHN and his minions in Council I ask;


s: Was there ever a Government-pleece (with a pinsion)


s: But children of Erin were fit for that task?


s: What, Erin beloved, is thy fetal condition?


s: What shame in aych boosom must rankle and burrun,


s: To think that our countree has ne'er a logician


s: In the hour of her deenger will surrev her turrun!


s: On the logic of Saxons there's little reliance,


s: And, rather from Saxons than gather its rules,


s: I'd stamp under feet the base book of his science,


s: And spit on his chair as he taught in the schools!


s: O false SIR JOHN KANE! is it thus that you praych me?


s: I think all your Queen's Universitees Bosh;


s: And if you've no neetive Professor to taych me,


s: I scawurn to be learned by the Saxon M'COSH.


s: There's WISEMAN and CHUME, and His Grace the Lord Primate,


s: That sinds round the box, and the world will subscribe;


s: 'Tis they'll build a College that's fit for our climate,


s: And taych me the saycrets I burn to imboibe!


s: 'Tis there as a Student of Science I'll enther,


s: SAINT PATHRICK'S sweet Statue shall stand in the centher,


s: And wink his dear oi every day during Lint.


s: And good Doctor NEWMAN, that praycher unwary,


s: 'Tis he shall preside the Academee School,


s: And quit the gay robe of ST. PHILIP of Neri,


s: To wield the soft rod of ST. LAWRENCE O'TOOLE!


s: An igstrawnary tail I vill tell you this veek--


s: I stood in the Court of A'Beckett the Beak,


s: Who charged Mary Brown with a robbin of she.


s: And she came to Mrs. Roney it's more than twelve monce.


s: She adn't got no bed, nor no dinner nor no tea,


s: And kind Mrs. Roney gave Mary all three.


s: Mrs. Roney kep Mary for ever so many veeks,


s: (Her conduct disgusted the best of all Beax,)


s: She kep her for nothink, as kind as could be,


s: Never thinkin that this Mary was a traitor to she.


s: "Mrs. Roney, O Mrs. Roney, I feel very ill;


s: Will you just step to the Doctor's for to fetch me a pill?"


s: "That I will, my pore Mary," Mrs. Roney says she;


s: And she goes off to the Doctor's as quickly as may be.


s: No sooner on this message Mrs. Roney was sped,


s: Than hup gits vicked Mary, and jumps out a bed;


s: She hopens all the trunks without never a key--


s: She bustes all the boxes, and vith them makes free.


s: Mrs. Roney's best linning, gownds, petticoats, and close,


s: Her children's little coats and things, her boots, and her hose,


s: She packed them, and she stole 'em, and avay vith them did flee.


s: Mrs. Roney's situation--you may think vat it vould be!


s: Of Mary, ungrateful, who had served her this vay,


s: Mrs. Roney heard nothink for a long year and a day.


s: Till last Thursday, in Lambeth, ven whom should she see


s: But this Mary, as had acted so ungrateful to she?


s: She was leaning on the helbo of a worthy young man,


s: They were going to be married, and were walkin hand in hand;


s: And the Church bells was a ringing for Mary and he,


s: And the parson was ready, and a waitin for his fee.


s: When up comes Mrs. Roney, and faces Mary Brown,


s: Who trembles, and castes her eyes upon the ground.


s: She calls a jolly pleaseman, it happens to be me;


s: I charge this yonng woman, Mr. Pleaseman, says she.


s: I acted most ungrateful I own, and I know,


s: But the marriage bell is a ringin, and the ring you may see,


s: And this young man is a waitin," says Mary says she.


s: "I don't care three fardens for the parson and clark,


s: And the bell may keep ringin from noon day to dark.


s: Mary Brown, Mary Brown, you must come along with me;


s: And I think this young man is lucky to be free."


s: I took that young gurl to A'Beckett the Beak;


s: But never a sullable said Mary said she.


s: On account of her conduck so base and so vile,


s: That wicked young gurl is committed for trile,


s: And if she's transpawted beyond the salt sea,


s: It's a proper reward for such willians as she.


s: Now you young gurls of Southwark for Mary who veep,


s: From pickin and stealin your ands you must keep,


s: Or it may be my dooty, as it was Thursday veek,


s: To pull you all hup to A'Beckett the Beak.


s: And without a pound came to English ground,


s: And the vater, you see, disagrees vith me


s: That all my plans should break in my ands,


s: And never have to veep, like pore Louis-Phileep,


s: For nothink could be vuss than it's been along vith us


s: Says the brave old Duke, "Come tell to us,


s: Likevise vere they kep their things, and


s: Prigs their boots, and hats, and clothes.


s: Special Jurymen of England! who admire your country's laws,


s: And proclaim a British Jury worthy of the realm's applause;


s: Gayly compliment each other at the issue of a cause


s: Which was tried at Guildford 'sizes, this day week as ever was.


s: Unto that august tribunal comes a gentleman in grief,


s: Comes a British man and husband--asking of the law relief;


s: Yes, his wife, the blessed treasure with the which his life was


s: Wickedly was ravished from him by a hypocrite profound.


s: He by counsel and attorney there at Guildford does appear,


s: Asking damage of the villain who seduced his lady dear:


s: As she would not go, why HE went: thrice he left his lady dear;


s: Mrs. Frances Duncan knew the parties very well indeed,


s: She had seen him pull his lady's nose and make her lip to bleed;


s: If he chanced to sit at home not a single word he said:


s: Once she saw him throw the cover of a dish at his lady's head.


s: Sarah Green, another witness, clear did to the jury note


s: How she saw this honest fellow seize his lady by the throat,


s: How he cursed her and abused her, beating her into a fit,


s: Next door to this injured Briton Mr. Owers a butcher dwelt;


s: Mrs. Owers's foolish heart towards this erring dame did melt;


s: (Not that she had erred as yet, crime was not developed in her),


s: But being left without a penny, Mrs. Owers supplied her dinner--


s: God be merciful to Mrs. Owers, who was merciful to this sinner!


s: Caroline Naylor was their servant, said they led a wretched life,


s: Sat with his wife or spoke her kindly.  This was the defendant's


s: But the damage to determine which, as it should true appear,


s: This most tender-hearted husband, who so used his lady dear--


s: Beat her, kicked her, caned her, cursed her, left her starving,


s: What the reasonable damage this afflicted man could claim,


s: By the loss of the affections of this guilty graceless dame?


s: Then the honest British Twelve, to each other turning round,


s: Laid their clever heads together with a wisdom most profound:


s: So, God bless the Special Jury! pride and joy of English ground,


s: And the happy land of England, where true justice does abound!


s: British jurymen and husbands, let us hail this verdict proper:


s: Although that galliant knight is oldish,


s: 'Twas two years sins, this knight so splendid,


s: With Hyming's wreeth their loves to crownd.


s: "O, come to Bath, to Lansdowne Crescent,"


s: "The Barring here shall have the ouse-key,


s: "And when they've passed an appy winter,


s: To Bath they went to Lansdowne Crescent,


s: To write the charge which Sir John swore,


s: He says Miss took his two best rings off,


s: Is this, pray, like the wives of Barrins,


s: Thus thought Sir John, by anger wrought on,


s: If guiltless, how she have been slandered!


s: And then there was the plaintives costs,


s: Only those were abroad who were out on a lark,


s: And I went and followed those seedy ones,


s: "I WOULD have wrote," says Jack, "but where


s: Come all ye Christian people, unto my tale give ear,


s: 'Tis about a base consperracy, as quickly shall appear;


s: The news of this consperracy and villianous attempt,


s: I read it in a newspaper, from Italy it was sent:


s: It was sent from lovely Italy, where the olives they do grow,


s: And our holy father lives, yes, yes, while his name it is No NO.


s: And 'tis there our English noblemen goes that is Puseyites no


s: Because they finds the ancient faith both better is and stronger,


s: And hung his neck with chains at St. Peter's Vinculo.


s: And the palace of PRINCE TORLONIA, likewise the Vatican;


s: And there's the stairs where the bagpipe-men and the piffararys


s: And it's there I drove my lady and lord in the Park of Pincio.


s: And 'tis there our splendid churches is in all their pride and


s: Saint Peter's famous Basilisk and Saint Mary's Maggiory;


s: And them benighted Prodestants, on Sunday they must go


s: Outside the town to the preaching-shop by the gate of Popolo.


s: Now in this town of famous Room, as I dessay you have heard,


s: There is scarcely any gentleman as hasn't got a beard.


s: And ever since the world began it was ordained so,


s: That there should always barbers he wheresumever beards do grow.


s: And as it always has been so since the world it did begin,


s: The POPE, our Holy Potentate, has a beard upon his chin;


s: And every morning regular when cocks begin to crow,


s: There comes a certing party to wait on POPE PIO.


s: There comes a certing gintlemen with razier, soap, and lather,


s: A shaving most respectfully the POPE, our Holy Father.


s: And now the dread consperracy I'll quickly to you show,


s: Which them sanguinary Prodestants did form against NONO.


s: Them sanguinary Prodestants, which I abore and hate,


s: Assembled in the preaching-shop by the Flaminian gate;


s: And they took counsel with their selves to deal a deadly blow


s: Against our gentle Father, the Holy POPE PIO.


s: Exhibiting a wickedness which I never heard or read of;


s: What do you think them Prodestants wished? to cut the good Pope's


s: And to the kind POPE'S Air-dresser the Prodestant Clark did go,


s: And proposed him to decapitate the innocent PIO.


s: "What hever can be easier," said this Clerk--this Man of Sin,


s: "When you are called to hoperate on His Holiness's chin,


s: Than just to give the razier a little slip--just so?--


s: And there's an end, dear barber, of innocent PIO!"


s: The wicked conversation it chanced was overerd


s: By an Italian lady; she heard it every word:


s: Which by birth she was a Marchioness, in service forced to go


s: With the parson of the preaching-shop at the gate of Popolo.


s: When the lady heard the news, as duty did obleege,


s: As fast as her legs could carry her she ran to the Poleege.


s: "O Polegia," says she (for they pronounts it so),


s: "They're going for to massyker our Holy POPE PIO.


s: "The ebomminable Englishmen, the Parsing and his Clark,


s: His Holiness's Air-dresser devised it in the dark!


s: And I would recommend you in prison for to throw


s: These villians would esassinate the Holy POPE PIO?


s: "And for saving of His Holiness and his trebble crownd


s: I humbly hope your Worships will give me a few pound;


s: Because I was a Marchioness many years ago,


s: Before I came to service at the gate of Popolo."


s: That sackreligious Air-dresser, the Parson and his man


s: Wouldn't, though ask'd continyally, own their wicked plan--


s: And so the kind Authoraties let those villians go


s: That was plotting of the murder of the good PIO NONO.


s: Now isn't this safishnt proof, ye gentlemen at home,


s: How wicked is them Prodestants, and how good our Pope at Rome?


s: So let us drink confusion to LORD JOHN and LORD MINTO,


s: And a health unto His Eminence, and good PIO NONO.


s: Come all ye Christian people, and listen to my tail,


s: It is all about a doctor was travelling by the rail,


s: A travelling from Bury this Doctor was employed


s: er, a lady entered into them most elegantly dressed.


s: She entered into the Carriage all with a tottering step,


s: And a pooty little Bayby upon her bussum slep;


s: The gentlemen received her with kindness and siwillaty,


s: Pitying this lady for her illness and debillaty.


s: She had a fust-class ticket, this lovely lady said,


s: Because it was so lonesome she took a secknd instead.


s: Better to travel by secknd class, than sit alone in the fust,


s: And the pooty little Baby upon her breast she nust.


s: A seein of her cryin, and shiverin and pail,


s: To her spoke this surging, the Ero of my tail;


s: Saysee you look unwell, Ma'am, I'll elp you if I can,


s: And you may tell your ease to me, for I'm a meddicle man.


s: "Thank you, Sir," the lady said, "I only look so pale,


s: Because I ain't accustom'd to travelling on the Rale;


s: I shall be better presnly, when I've ad some rest:"


s: And that pooty little Baby she squeeged it to her breast.


s: So in the conwersation the journey they beguiled,


s: Capting Loyd and the meddicle man, and the lady and the child,


s: Till the warious stations along the line was passed,


s: For even the Heastern Counties' trains must come in at last.


s: When at Shoreditch tumminus at lenth stopped the train,


s: This kind meddicle gentleman proposed his aid again.


s: "Thank you, Sir," the lady said, "for your kyindness dear;


s: My carridge and my osses is probibbly come here.


s: "Will you old this baby, please, vilst I step and see?"


s: The Doctor was a famly man: "That I will," says he.


s: Then the little child she kist, kist it very gently,


s: Vich was sucking his little fist, sleeping innocently.


s: With a sigh from her art, as though she would have bust it,


s: Then she gave the Doctor the child--wery kind he nust it:


s: Hup then the lady jumped hoff the bench she sat from,


s: Tumbled down the carridge steps and ran along the platform.


s: Vile hall the other passengers vent upon their vays,


s: The Capting and the Doctor sat there in a maze;


s: Some vent in a Homminibus, some vent in a Cabby,


s: The Capting and the Doctor vaited vith the babby.


s: There they sat looking queer, for an hour or more,


s: But their feller passinger neather on 'em sore:


s: Never, never back again did that lady come


s: To that pooty sleeping Hinfnt a suckin of his Thum!


s: What could this pore Doctor do, bein treated thus,


s: When the darling Baby woke, cryin for its nuss?


s: Off he drove to a female friend, vich she was both kind and mild,


s: That kind lady took the child instantly in her lap,


s: And made it very comfortable by giving it some pap;


s: And when she took its close off, what d'you think she found?


s: A couple of ten pun notes sewn up, in its little gownd!


s: Also in its little close, was a note which did conwey


s: That this little baby's parents lived in a handsome way


s: And for his Headucation they reglarly would pay,


s: And sirtingly like gentlefolks would claim the child one day,


s: If the Christian people who'd charge of it would say,


s: Per adwertisement in The Times where the baby lay.


s: It had such pooty ways and such a pooty look;


s: And there came a lady forrard (I wish that I could see


s: Any kind lady as would do as much for me);


s: And I wish with all my art, some night in MY night gownd,


s: I could find a note stitched for ten or twenty pound--


s: There came a lady forrard, that most honorable did say,


s: She'd adopt this little baby, which her parents cast away.


s: While the Doctor pondered on this hoffer fair,


s: Comes a letter from Devonshire, from a party there,


s: Hordering the Doctor, at its Mar's desire,


s: To send the little Infant back to Devonshire.


s: Lost in apoplexity, this pore meddicle man,


s: Like a sensable gentleman, to the Justice ran;


s: Which his name was Mr. Hammill, a honorable beak,


s: That takes his seat in Worship Street, four times a week.


s: "O Justice!" says the Doctor, "instrugt me what to do.


s: I've come up from the country, to throw myself on you;


s: My patients have no doctor to tend them in their ills,


s: (There they are in Suffolk without their drafts and pills!)


s: "I've come up from the country, to know how I'll dispose


s: Of this pore little baby, and the twenty pun note, and the close,


s: Up spoke Mr. Hammill, sittin at his desk,


s: "This year application does me much perplesk;


s: What I do adwise you, is to leave this babby


s: In the Parish where it was left, by its mother shabby."


s: The Doctor from his worship sadly did depart--


s: He might have left the baby, but he hadn't got the heart


s: To go for to leave that Hinnocent, has the law allows,


s: To the tender mussies of the Union House.


s: Mother, who left this little one on a stranger's knee,


s: Think how cruel you have been, and how good was he!


s: Think, if you've been guilty, innocent was she;


s: And do not take unkindly this little word of me:


s: Heaven be merciful to us all, sinners as we be!


s: "The MAGISTRATE, after perusing the lines, looked hard at X, and


s: said he did not think they were written by an Italian.


s: "X, blushing, said he thought the paper read in Court last week,


s: O SIGNOR BRODERIP, you are a wickid ole man,


s: You wexis us little horgin-boys whenever you can:


s: How dare you talk of Justice, and go for to seek


s: To pussicute us horgin-boys, you senguinary Beek?


s: Though you set in Vestminster surrounded by your crushers,


s: Harrogint and habsolute like the Hortocrat of hall the Rushers,


s: Yet there is a better vurld I'd have you for to know,


s: Likewise a place vere the henimies of horgin-boys will go.


s: London vithout horgin-boys vood be a dismal city.


s: Sweet SAINT CICILY who first taught horgin-pipes to blow,


s: Soften the heart of this Magistrit that haggerywates us so!


s: Good Italian gentlemen, fatherly and kind,


s: Brings us over to London here our horgins for to grind;


s: Sends us out vith little vite mice and guinea-pigs also


s: A popping of the Veasel and a Jumpin of JIM CROW.


s: And as us young horgin-boys is grateful in our turn


s: We gives to these kind gentlemen hall the money we earn,


s: Because that they vood vop up as wery wel we know


s: Unless we brought our hurnings back to them as loves us so.


s: Ven you take your valks abroad where can be your eyes?


s: If a Beak had a heart then you'd compryend


s: Us pore little horgin-boys was the poor man's friend.


s: Don't you see the shildren in the droring-rooms


s: Clapping of their little ands when they year our toons?


s: On their mothers' bussums don't you see the babbies crow


s: And down to us dear horgin-boys lots of apence throw?


s: Don't you see the ousemaids (pooty POLLIES and MARIES),


s: Ven ve bring our urdigurdis, smiling from the hairies?


s: Have you ever seen the Hirish children sport


s: When our velcome music-box brings sunshine in the Court?


s: To these little paupers who can never pay


s: Surely all good horgin-boys, for GOD'S love, will play.


s: Has for those proud gentlemen, like a serting B--k


s: (Vich I von't be pussonal and therefore vil not speak),


s: That flings their parler-vinders hup von ve begin to play


s: And cusses us and swears at us in such a wiolent way,


s: Instedd of their abewsing and calling hout Poleece


s: Let em send out JOHN to us vith six-pence or a shillin apiece.


s: Then like good young horgin-boys avay from there we'll go,


s: Blessing sweet SAINT CICILY that taught our pipes to blow.


s: There were three sailors of Bristol city


s: But first with beef and captain's biscuits


s: There was gorging Jack and guzzling Jimmy,


s: There's little Bill, he's young and tender,


s: "Oh! Billy, we're going to kill and eat you,


s: "Make haste, make haste," says guzzling Jimmy,


s: So Billy went up to the main-top gallant mast,


s: He scarce had come to the twelfth commandment


s: There's the British flag a riding at anchor,


s: So when they got aboard of the Admiral's


s: And, when he's laughed and said his say,


s: On life's wide scene you, too, have parts,


s: Goodnight--I'd say, the griefs, the joys,


s: The strong may yield, the good may fall,


s: Why should your mother, Charles, not mine,


s: This crowns his feast with wine and wit:


s: Who brought him to that mirth and state?


s: Come, brother, in that dust we'll kneel,


s: Dear hopes, dear friends, untimely killed;


s: And wish you health, and love, and mirth,


s: Be this, good friends, our carol still--


s: * These verses were printed at the end of a Christmas Book (1848-


s: How high they were, and how they tumble!


s: Sir Preacher, from your desk you mumble?


s: And tire us with your ceaseless grumble?


s: Though thrice a thousand years are past,


s: Since David's son, the sad and splendid,


s: He lifts his voice and cries his sermon,


s: * Between a page by Jules Janin, and a poem by the Turkish


s: Ambassador, in Madame de R----'s album, containing the autographs


s: statesmen, artists, and men of letters of all nations.


s: At that hour when all things have repose,


s: From love's deep slumber and from death,


s: And the thunder of horses plunging, foam about their knees:


s: Shy thought and grave wide eyes and hands


s: Do you hear the night wind and the sighs


s: And the night wind answering in antiphon


s: At that hour when soft lights come and go,


s: And soon will your true love be with you,


s: And sweet were the words she said to me.


s: The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing


s: Arrogant, in black armour, behind them stand,


s: Disdaining the reins, with fluttering ships, the charioteers.


s: They cry unto the night their battle-name:


s: I moan in sleep when I hear afar their whirling laughter.


s: They cleave the gloom of dreams, a blinding flame,


s: Clanging, clanging upon the heart as upon an anvil.


s: They come shaking in triumph their long, green hair:


s: They come out of the sea and run shouting by the shore.


s: My heart, have you no wisdom thus to despair?


s: My love, my love, my love, why have you left me alone?


s: And, Thomas, here's my best respects to you!


s: And treat you as a Christian ought to do;


s: "What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.


s: "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.


s: "What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.


s: "I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said.


s: They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away,


s: An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.


s: "What makes the rear-rank breathe so 'ard?" said Files-on-Parade.


s: "What makes that front-rank man fall down?" said Files-on-Parade.


s: They are hangin' Danny Deever, they are marchin' of 'im round,


s: They 'ave 'alted Danny Deever by 'is coffin on the ground;


s: An' 'e'll swing in 'arf a minute for a sneakin' shootin' hound--


s: O they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'!


s: "'Is cot was right-'and cot to mine", said Files-on-Parade.


s: "'E's sleepin' out an' far to-night", the Colour-Sergeant said.


s: "I've drunk 'is beer a score o' times", said Files-on-Parade.


s: "'E's drinkin' bitter beer alone", the Colour-Sergeant said.


s: They are hangin' Danny Deever, you must mark 'im to 'is place,


s: For 'e shot a comrade sleepin'--you must look 'im in the face;


s: Nine 'undred of 'is county an' the regiment's disgrace,


s: While they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.


s: "What's that so black agin' the sun?" said Files-on-Parade.


s: "It's Danny fightin' 'ard for life", the Colour-Sergeant said.


s: "What's that that whimpers over'ead?" said Files-on-Parade.


s: "It's Danny's soul that's passin' now", the Colour-Sergeant said.


s: I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer,


s: The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no red-coats here."


s: The girls be'ind the bar they laughed an' giggled fit to die,


s: I outs into the street again an' to myself sez I:


s: O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";


s: O it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play.


s: I went into a theatre as sober as could be,


s: They gave a drunk civilian room, but 'adn't none for me;


s: They sent me to the gallery or round the music-'alls,


s: Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep


s: Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;


s: An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit


s: Is five times better business than paradin' in full kit.


s: The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll,


s: O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" when the drums begin to roll.


s: We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,


s: But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;


s: An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,


s: Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints;


s: While it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall be'ind",


s: You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:


s: We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.


s: Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face


s: The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.


s: An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;


s: An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool--you bet that Tommy sees!


s: We've fought with many men acrost the seas,


s: An' some of 'em was brave an' some was not:


s: But the Fuzzy was the finest o' the lot.


s: We never got a ha'porth's change of 'im:


s: 'E squatted in the scrub an' 'ocked our 'orses,


s: An' 'e played the cat an' banjo with our forces.


s: So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;


s: You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;


s: We gives you your certificate, an' if you want it signed


s: We'll come an' 'ave a romp with you whenever you're inclined.


s: We took our chanst among the Khyber 'ills,


s: Was pop to what the Fuzzy made us swaller;


s: We 'eld our bloomin' own, the papers say,


s: But man for man the Fuzzy knocked us 'oller.


s: Then 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, an' the missis and the kid;


s: Our orders was to break you, an' of course we went an' did.


s: We sloshed you with Martinis, an' it wasn't 'ardly fair;


s: But for all the odds agin' you, Fuzzy-Wuz, you broke the square.


s: When 'e's 'oppin' in an' out among the bush


s: With 'is coffin-'eaded shield an' shovel-spear,


s: But give an' take's the gospel, an' we'll call the bargain fair,


s: For if you 'ave lost more than us, you crumpled up the square!


s: 'E rushes at the smoke when we let drive,


s: An', before we know, 'e's 'ackin' at our 'ead;


s: 'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive,


s: An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.


s: 'E's a daisy, 'e's a ducky, 'e's a lamb!


s: 'E's the on'y thing that doesn't give a damn


s: So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your 'ome in the Soudan;


s: You're a pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin' man;


s: An' 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air--


s: You big black boundin' beggar--for you broke a British square!


s: "We're fresh from off the ship an' 'e's maybe give the slip,


s: The dead they cannot rise, an' you'd better dry your eyes,


s: "I seed 'im serve the Queen in a suit o' rifle-green,


s: "I seed 'im runnin' by when the shots begun to fly--


s: "I couldn't see the fight, for the smoke it lay so white--


s: "'E's lying on the dead with a bullet through 'is 'ead,


s: "The pit we dug'll 'ide 'im an' the twenty men beside 'im--


s: Do you bring no sign from my true love?"


s: "I bring a lock of 'air that 'e allus used to wear,


s: O then I know it's true I've lost my true love!"


s: "An' I tell you truth again--when you've lost the feel o' pain


s: An' you'd best take 'im for your true love.


s: Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool,


s: I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule,


s: With seventy gunners be'ind me, an' never a beggar forgets


s: that handles the dear little pets--'Tss! 'Tss!


s: o' course you will know what to do--hoo! hoo!


s: You can go where you please, you can skid up the trees,


s: we guns that are built in two bits--'Tss! 'Tss!


s: By God, you must lather with us--'Tss! 'Tss!


s: The eagles is screamin' around us, the river's a-moanin' below,


s: We're clear o' the pine an' the oak-scrub,


s: the jinglety-jink o' the chains--'Tss! 'Tss!


s: There's a wheel on the Horns o' the Mornin',


s: to hold the old gun in 'er place--'Tss! 'Tss!


s: I climbs in my old brown gaiters along o' my old brown mule.


s: Stand easy, you long-eared old darlin's!


s: Out drag-ropes!  With shrapnel!  Hold fast--'Tss! 'Tss!


s: You may hide in the caves, they'll be only your graves,


s: With a second-hand overcoat under my head,


s: O it's pack-drill for me and a fortnight's C.B.


s: So it's pack-drill for me and a fortnight's C.B.


s: I started o' canteen porter, I finished o' canteen beer,


s: I left my cap in a public-house, my boots in the public road,


s: Yes, it's pack-drill for me and a fortnight's C.B.


s: An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it;


s: An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.


s: You limpin' lump o' brick-dust, Gunga Din!


s: An' rather less than 'arf o' that be'ind,


s: Was all the field-equipment 'e could find.


s: Where the 'eat would make your bloomin' eyebrows crawl,


s: You 'eathen, where the mischief 'ave you been?


s: If you don't fill up my helmet, Gunga Din!"


s: An' 'e didn't seem to know the use o' fear.


s: 'E'd be waitin' fifty paces right flank rear.


s: An' watch us till the bugles made "Retire",


s: When 'e went to tend the wounded under fire!


s: With the bullets kickin' dust-spots on the green.


s: With a bullet where my belt-plate should 'a' been.


s: Was our good old grinnin', gruntin' Gunga Din.


s: An' 'e guv me 'arf-a-pint o' water-green:


s: 'Ere's a beggar with a bullet through 'is spleen;


s: For Gawd's sake git the water, Gunga Din!"


s: An' a bullet come an' drilled the beggar clean.


s: "I 'ope you liked your drink", sez Gunga Din.


s: Where it's always double drill and no canteen;


s: An' I'll get a swig in hell from Gunga Din!


s: You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!


s: Wot makes the soldier's 'eart to penk, wot makes 'im to perspire?


s: But it's everlastin' waitin' on a everlastin' road


s: For the commissariat camel an' 'is commissariat load.


s: O the oont, O the oont, O the commissariat oont!


s: With 'is silly neck a-bobbin' like a basket full o' snakes;


s: We packs 'im like an idol, an' you ought to 'ear 'im grunt,


s: An' when we gets 'im loaded up 'is blessed girth-rope breaks.


s: Wot makes the rear-guard swear so 'ard when night is drorin' in,


s: An' every native follower is shiverin' for 'is skin?


s: It ain't the chanst o' being rushed by Paythans from the 'ills,


s: It's the commissariat camel puttin' on 'is bloomin' frills!


s: O the oont, O the oont, O the hairy scary oont!


s: A-trippin' over tent-ropes when we've got the night alarm!


s: We socks 'im with a stretcher-pole an' 'eads 'im off in front,


s: An' when we've saved 'is bloomin' life 'e chaws our bloomin' arm.


s: The 'orse 'e knows above a bit, the bullock's but a fool,


s: The elephant's a gentleman, the battery-mule's a mule;


s: But the commissariat cam-u-el, when all is said an' done,


s: 'E's a devil an' a ostrich an' a orphan-child in one.


s: O the oont, O the oont, O the Gawd-forsaken oont!


s: The lumpy-'umpy 'ummin'-bird a-singin' where 'e lies,


s: 'E's blocked the whole division from the rear-guard to the front,


s: O the oont, O the oont, O the floppin', droppin' oont!


s: When 'is long legs give from under an' 'is meltin' eye is dim,


s: The tribes is up be'ind us, and the tribes is out in front--


s: It ain't no jam for Tommy, but it's kites an' crows for 'im.


s: So when the cruel march is done, an' when the roads is blind,


s: An' when we sees the camp in front an' 'ears the shots be'ind,


s: Ho! then we strips 'is saddle off, and all 'is woes is past:


s: 'E thinks on us that used 'im so, and gets revenge at last.


s: O the oont, O the oont, O the floatin', bloatin' oont!


s: The late lamented camel in the water-cut 'e lies;


s: We keeps a mile be'ind 'im an' we keeps a mile in front,


s: But 'e gets into the drinkin'-casks, and then o' course we dies.


s: If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back,


s: If you've ever snigged the washin' from the line,


s: If you've ever crammed a gander in your bloomin' 'aversack,


s: You will understand this little song o' mine.


s: But the service rules are 'ard, an' from such we are debarred,


s: For the same with English morals does not suit.


s: W'y, they call a man a robber if 'e stuffs 'is marchin' clobber


s: (Chorus)  Loo! loo!  Lulu! lulu!  Loo! loo!  Loot! loot! loot!


s: That's the thing to make the boys git up an' shoot!


s: Clap 'em forward with a Loo! loo! Lulu! Loot!


s: An' may thank your stars an' gaiters if you didn't feel 'is knife


s: Why lootin' should be entered as a crime;


s: So if my song you'll 'ear, I will learn you plain an' clear


s: 'Ow to pay yourself for fightin' overtime.


s: Now remember when you're 'acking round a gilded Burma god


s: That 'is eyes is very often precious stones;


s: 'E's like to show you everything 'e owns.


s: When 'e won't prodooce no more, pour some water on the floor


s: Where you 'ear it answer 'ollow to the boot


s: (Chorus)  Loo! loo!  Lulu!   Loot! loot! loot!


s: For a single man gets bottled on them twisty-wisty stairs,


s: An' a woman comes and clobs 'im from be'ind.


s: When you've turned 'em inside out, an' it seems beyond a doubt


s: As if there weren't enough to dust a flute


s: Before you sling your 'ook, at the 'ousetops take a look,


s: For it's underneath the tiles they 'ide the loot.


s: You can mostly square a Sergint an' a Quartermaster too,


s: I could never keep my pickin's, but I've learned you all I knew--


s: An' now I'll bid good-bye, for I'm gettin' rather dry,


s: So 'ere's good-luck to those that wears the Widow's clo'es,


s: An' the Devil send 'em all they want o' loot!


s: In the tunic an' the mess-tin an' the boot!


s: This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps


s: Which is first among the women an' amazin' first in war;


s: An' what the bloomin' battle was I don't remember now,


s: But Two's off-lead 'e answered to the name o' Snarleyow.


s: But down in the lead with the wheel at the flog


s: Turns the bold Bombardier to a little whipped dog!


s: They was movin' into action, they was needed very sore,


s: To learn a little schoolin' to a native army corps,


s: They cut 'im loose an' left 'im--'e was almost tore in two--


s: But he tried to follow after as a well-trained 'orse should do;


s: 'E went an' fouled the limber, an' the Driver's Brother squeals:


s: "Pull up, pull up for Snarleyow--'is head's between 'is 'eels!"


s: The Driver 'umped 'is shoulder, for the wheels was goin' round,


s: 'E 'adn't 'ardly spoke the word, before a droppin' shell


s: A little right the batt'ry an' between the sections fell;


s: An' when the smoke 'ad cleared away, before the limber wheels,


s: There lay the Driver's Brother with 'is 'ead between 'is 'eels.


s: Then sez the Driver's Brother, an' 'is words was very plain,


s: "For Gawd's own sake get over me, an' put me out o' pain."


s: The Driver 'e give nothin' 'cept a little coughin' grunt,


s: But 'e swung 'is 'orses 'andsome when it came to "Action Front!"


s: An' if one wheel was juicy, you may lay your Monday head


s: The moril of this story, it is plainly to be seen:


s: You 'avn't got no families when servin' of the Queen--


s: You 'avn't got no brothers, fathers, sisters, wives, or sons--


s: If you want to win your battles take an' work your bloomin' guns!


s: But down in the lead with the wheel at the flog


s: Turns the bold Bombardier to a little whipped dog!


s: She 'as ships on the foam--she 'as millions at 'ome,


s: There's 'er mark on the medical stores--


s: An' 'er troopers you'll find with a fair wind be'ind


s: The men an' the 'orses what makes up the forces


s: We 'ave bought 'er the same with the sword an' the flame,


s: An' we've salted it down with our bones.


s: (Poor beggars!--it's blue with our bones!)


s: For the Kings must come down an' the Emperors frown


s: (Poor beggars!--we're sent to say "Stop"!)


s: To the Lodge that we tile with the rank an' the file,


s: For 'er sentries we stand by the sea an' the land


s: (Poor beggars!--an' don't we get blown!)


s: An' flop round the earth till you're dead;


s: But you won't get away from the tune that they play


s: 'Ere's all they desire, an' if they require


s: (Poor beggars!--they'll never see 'ome!)


s: There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay,


s: Between an Irish regiment an' English cavalree;


s: It started at Revelly an' it lasted on till dark:


s: The first man dropped at Harrison's, the last forninst the Park.


s: For it was:--"Belts, belts, belts, an' that's one for you!"


s: An' it was "Belts, belts, belts, an' that's done for you!"


s: There was a row in Silver Street--the regiments was out,


s: They called us "Delhi Rebels", an' we answered "Threes about!"


s: That drew them like a hornet's nest--we met them good an' large,


s: The English at the double an' the Irish at the charge.


s: There was a row in Silver Street--an' I was in it too;


s: We passed the time o' day, an' then the belts went whirraru!


s: I misremember what occurred, but subsequint the storm


s: A Freeman's Journal Supplemint was all my uniform.


s: There was a row in Silver Street--they sent the Polis there,


s: The English were too drunk to know, the Irish didn't care;


s: But when they grew impertinint we simultaneous rose,


s: Till half o' them was Liffey mud an' half was tatthered clo'es.


s: There was a row in Silver Street--it might ha' raged till now,


s: But some one drew his side-arm clear, an' nobody knew how;


s: 'Twas Hogan took the point an' dropped; we saw the red blood run:


s: There was a row in Silver Street--but that put down the shine,


s: Wid each man whisperin' to his next:  "'Twas never work o' mine!"


s: There was a row in Silver Street--it isn't over yet,


s: For half of us are under guard wid punishments to get;


s: 'Tis all a merricle to me as in the Clink I lie:


s: There was a row in Silver Street--begod, I wonder why!


s: But it was:--"Belts, belts, belts, an' that's one for you!"


s: An' it was "Belts, belts, belts, an' that's done for you!"


s: When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East


s: 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast,


s: An' 'e wonders because 'e is frequent deceased


s: Now all you recruities what's drafted to-day,


s: You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay,


s: An' I'll sing you a soldier as far as I may:


s: First mind you steer clear o' the grog-sellers' huts,


s: For they sell you Fixed Bay'nets that rots out your guts--


s: Ay, drink that 'ud eat the live steel from your butts--


s: An' it's bad for the young British soldier.


s: When the cholera comes--as it will past a doubt--


s: Keep out of the wet and don't go on the shout,


s: For the sickness gets in as the liquor dies out,


s: An' it crumples the young British soldier.


s: But the worst o' your foes is the sun over'ead:


s: You must wear your 'elmet for all that is said:


s: If 'e finds you uncovered 'e'll knock you down dead,


s: An' you'll die like a fool of a soldier.


s: If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,


s: Don't grouse like a woman nor crack on nor blind;


s: Be handy and civil, and then you will find


s: That it's beer for the young British soldier.


s: Now, if you must marry, take care she is old--


s: A troop-sergeant's widow's the nicest I'm told,


s: For beauty won't help if your rations is cold,


s: If the wife should go wrong with a comrade, be loath


s: To shoot when you catch 'em--you'll swing, on my oath!--


s: Make 'im take 'er and keep 'er:  that's Hell for them both,


s: An' you're shut o' the curse of a soldier.


s: When first under fire an' you're wishful to duck,


s: Don't look nor take 'eed at the man that is struck,


s: Be thankful you're livin', and trust to your luck


s: When 'arf of your bullets fly wide in the ditch,


s: She's human as you are--you treat her as sich,


s: An' she'll fight for the young British soldier.


s: When shakin' their bustles like ladies so fine,


s: Shoot low at the limbers an' don't mind the shine,


s: If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,


s: So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,


s: When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,


s: And the women come out to cut up what remains,


s: Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains


s: By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea,


s: There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me;


s: For the wind is in the palm-trees, and the temple-bells they say:


s: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay?


s: An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!


s: 'Er petticoat was yaller an' 'er little cap was green,


s: An' 'er name was Supi-yaw-lat--jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen,


s: An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot,


s: An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot:


s: Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed 'er where she stud!


s: With 'er arm upon my shoulder an' 'er cheek agin' my cheek


s: We useter watch the steamers an' the hathis pilin' teak.


s: Where the silence 'ung that 'eavy you was 'arf afraid to speak!


s: But that's all shove be'ind me--long ago an' fur away,


s: An' there ain't no 'busses runnin' from the Bank to Mandalay;


s: An' I'm learnin' 'ere in London what the ten-year soldier tells:


s: An' the sunshine an' the palm-trees an' the tinkly temple-bells;


s: I am sick o' wastin' leather on these gritty pavin'-stones,


s: An' the blasted Henglish drizzle wakes the fever in my bones;


s: Tho' I walks with fifty 'ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand,


s: An' they talks a lot o' lovin', but wot do they understand?


s: I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!


s: With our sick beneath the awnings when we went to Mandalay!


s: An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!


s: Troopin', troopin', troopin' to the sea:


s: 'Ere's September come again--the six-year men are free.


s: O leave the dead be'ind us, for they cannot come away


s: To where the ship's a-coalin' up that takes us 'ome to-day.


s: For I'll marry you yit on a fourp'ny bit


s: The Malabar's in 'arbour with the Jumner at 'er tail,


s: An' the time-expired's waitin' of 'is orders for to sail.


s: Ho! the weary waitin' when on Khyber 'ills we lay,


s: But the time-expired's waitin' of 'is orders 'ome to-day.


s: They'll turn us out at Portsmouth wharf in cold an' wet an' rain,


s: They'll kill us of pneumonia--for that's their little way--


s: But damn the chills and fever, men, we're goin' 'ome to-day!


s: Troopin', troopin', winter's round again!


s: See the new draf's pourin' in for the old campaign;


s: Ho, you poor recruities, but you've got to earn your pay--


s: What's the last from Lunnon, lads?  We're goin' there to-day.


s: Troopin', troopin', give another cheer--


s: 'Ere's to English women an' a quart of English beer.


s: The Colonel an' the regiment an' all who've got to stay,


s: Gawd's mercy strike 'em gentle--Whoop! we're goin' 'ome to-day.


s: And you can't refuse when you get the card,


s: A bit o' beef that were three year stored,


s: And a fowl we killed with a sergeant's sword,


s: We carries 'em with us wherever we walks,


s: And some was sliced and some was halved,


s: And some was crimped and some was carved,


s: And some was gutted and some was starved,


s: They couldn't do more and they wouldn't do less,


s: They ate their whack and they drank their fill,


s: And I think the rations has made them ill,


s: On the broad o' my back at the end o' the day,


s: As I lay in the bight of a canvas trough,


s: A court-house stands where the reg'ment goed.


s: And the river's clean where the raw blood flowed


s: Gawd 'elp 'em if they blunder, for their boots'll pull 'em under,


s: There's the river low an' fallin', but it ain't no use o' callin'


s: To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned,


s: To my brethren in their sorrow overseas,


s: Sings a gentleman of England cleanly bred, machinely crammed,


s: And a trooper of the Empress, if you please.


s: Yea, a trooper of the forces who has run his own six horses,


s: And faith he went the pace and went it blind,


s: And the world was more than kin while he held the ready tin,


s: But to-day the Sergeant's something less than kind.


s: We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,


s: We're little black sheep who've gone astray,


s: To dance with blowzy housemaids at the regimental hops


s: And thrash the cad who says you waltz too well.


s: Yes, it makes you cock-a-hoop to be "Rider" to your troop,


s: And branded with a blasted worsted spur,


s: When you envy, O how keenly, one poor Tommy being cleanly


s: Who blacks your boots and sometimes calls you "Sir".


s: If the home we never write to, and the oaths we never keep,


s: And all we know most distant and most dear,


s: Across the snoring barrack-room return to break our sleep,


s: Can you blame us if we soak ourselves in beer?


s: Every secret, self-revealing on the aching white-washed ceiling,


s: Do you wonder that we drug ourselves from pain?


s: We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,


s: And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.


s: God help us, for we knew the worst too young!


s: And the Curse of Reuben holds us till an alien turf enfolds us


s: And we die, and none can tell Them where we died.


s: We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,


s: We're little black sheep who've gone astray,


s: We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains,


s: A little front o' Christmas-time an' just be'ind the Rains;


s: Ho! get away you bullock-man, you've 'eard the bugle blowed,


s: There's a regiment a-comin' down the Grand Trunk Road;


s: An' every bloomin' campin'-ground exactly like the last;


s: "Kiko kissywarsti don't you hamsher argy jow?"


s: Oh, there's them Injian temples to admire when you see,


s: There's the peacock round the corner an' the monkey up the tree,


s: An' there's that rummy silver grass a-wavin' in the wind,


s: An' the old Grand Trunk a-trailin' like a rifle-sling be'ind.


s: At half-past five's Revelly, an' our tents they down must come,


s: Like a lot of button mushrooms when you pick 'em up at 'ome.


s: But it's over in a minute, an' at six the column starts,


s: While the women and the kiddies sit an' shiver in the carts.


s: Oh, then it's open order, an' we lights our pipes an' sings,


s: An' we talks about our rations an' a lot of other things,


s: It's none so bad o' Sunday, when you're lyin' at your ease,


s: To watch the kites a-wheelin' round them feather-'eaded trees,


s: So 'ark an' 'eed, you rookies, which is always grumblin' sore,


s: There's worser things than marchin' from Umballa to Cawnpore;


s: An' if your 'eels are blistered an' they feels to 'urt like 'ell,


s: We're marchin' on relief over Injia's coral strand,


s: Eight 'undred fightin' Englishmen, the Colonel, and the Band;


s: Ho! get away you bullock-man, you've 'eard the bugle blowed,


s: There's a regiment a-comin' down the Grand Trunk Road;


s: An' every bloomin' campin'-ground exactly like the last;


s: "Kiko kissywarsti don't you hamsher argy jow?"


s: My name is O'Kelly, I've heard the Revelly


s: From Birr to Bareilly, from Leeds to Lahore,


s: And fifty-five more all endin' in "pore".


s: Black Death and his quickness, the depth and the thickness,


s: Of sorrow and sickness I've known on my way,


s: Went slap for the Ghazi, my sword at my side,


s: That didn't care whether we lived or we died.


s: But it's no use despairin', my wife must go charin'


s: An' me commissairin' the pay-bills to better,


s: By the Grand Metropold, won't you give me a letter?


s: Late Troop-Sergeant-Major an'--runs with a letter!


s: I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at,


s: A-layin' on to the sergeant I don't know a gun from a bat;


s: Don't look so 'ard, for I 'aven't no card,


s: I done my six years' service.  'Er Majesty sez:  "Good-day--


s: An' now you can make your fortune--the same as your orf'cers do."


s: A man o' four-an'-twenty that 'asn't learned of a trade--


s: Beside "Reserve" agin' him--'e'd better be never made.


s: I tried my luck for a quarter, an' that was enough for me,


s: 'Tisn't my fault if I dress when I 'alt--


s: The sergeant arst no questions, but 'e winked the other eye,


s: 'Oo would ha' thought I could carry an' port?


s: I took my bath, an' I wallered--for, Gawd, I needed it so!


s: I smelt the smell o' the barricks, I 'eard the bugles go.


s: I 'eard the feet on the gravel--the feet o' the men what drill--


s: 'Oo said I knew when the Jumner was due?


s: Rather too free with my fancies?  Wot--me?


s: Next week I'll 'ave 'em fitted; I'll buy me a swagger-cane;


s: They'll let me free o' the barricks to walk on the Hoe again


s: In the name o' William Parsons, that used to be Edward Clay,


s: An'--any pore beggar that wants it can draw my fourpence a day!


s: In learnin' the others their trade--parade!


s: But drives 'em to cheat to get out o' the street


s: March!  The mud is cakin' good about our trousies.


s: Front!--eyes front, an' watch the Colour-casin's drip.


s: Front!  The faces of the women in the 'ouses


s: Ain't the kind o' things to take aboard the ship.


s: Cheer!  An' we'll never march to victory.


s: Cheer!  An' we'll never live to 'ear the cannon roar!


s: An' you'll never see your soldiers any more!


s: Wheel!  Oh, keep your touch; we're goin' round a corner.


s: Time!--mark time, an' let the men be'ind us close.


s: Lord! the transport's full, an' 'alf our lot not on 'er--


s: Cheer, O cheer!  We're going off where no one knows.


s: March!  The Devil's none so black as 'e is painted!


s: Cheer!  We'll 'ave some fun before we're put away.


s: 'Alt, an' 'and 'er out--a woman's gone and fainted!


s: Cheer!  Get on--Gawd 'elp the married men to-day!


s: Hoi!  Come up, you 'ungry beggars, to yer sorrow.


s: ('Ear them say they want their tea, an' want it quick!)


s: You won't have no mind for slingers, not to-morrow--


s: No; you'll put the 'tween-decks stove out, bein' sick!


s: 'Alt!  The married kit 'as all to go before us!


s: 'Course it's blocked the bloomin' gangway up again!


s: Cheer, O cheer the 'Orse Guards watchin' tender o'er us,


s: Keepin' us since eight this mornin' in the rain!


s: Stuck in 'eavy marchin'-order, sopped and wringin'--


s: Sick, before our time to watch 'er 'eave an' fall,


s: 'Ere's your 'appy 'ome at last, an' stop your singin'.


s: 'Alt!  Fall in along the troop-deck!  Silence all!


s: Cheer!  For we'll never live to see no bloomin' victory!


s: An' you'll never see your soldiers any more!  ('Ip!  Urroar!)


s: An' you'll never see your soldiers any more!


s: As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile,


s: I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up in the Reg'lars' style.


s: 'E was scrapin' the paint from off of 'er plates,


s: 'E's a kind of a giddy harumfrodite--soldier an' sailor too!


s: We've fought 'em in trooper, we've fought 'em in dock,


s: When they called us the seasick scull'ry-maids,


s: An' they done it, the Jollies--'Er Majesty's Jollies--


s: We're most of us liars, we're 'arf of us thieves,


s: But once in a while we can finish in style


s: But it makes you think better o' you an' your friends,


s: When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear,


s: When the Flood come along for an extra monsoon,


s: 'Twas Noah constructed the first pontoon


s: But after fatigue in the wet an' the sun,


s: Old Noah got drunk, which he wouldn't ha' done


s: When the Tower o' Babel had mixed up men's bat,


s: Young Joshua ordered the sun to stand still,


s: When the Children of Israel made bricks without straw,


s: They were learnin' the regular work of our Corps,


s: For ever since then, if a war they would wage,


s: We lay down their sidings an' help 'em entrain,


s: An' we sweep up their mess through the bloomin' campaign,


s: They send us in front with a fuse an' a mine


s: To blow up the gates that are rushed by the Line,


s: To dig for the guns of a bullock-brigade


s: We work under escort in trousers and shirt,


s: An' the heathen they plug us tail-up in the dirt,


s: We blast out the rock an' we shovel the mud,


s: We make 'em good roads an'--they roll down the khud,


s: We make 'em their bridges, their wells, an' their huts,


s: An' when we return, an' from war we would cease,


s: They grudge us adornin' the billets of peace,


s: We build 'em nice barracks--they swear they are bad,


s: That our Colonels are Methodist, married or mad,


s: They haven't no manners nor gratitude too,


s: For the more that we help 'em, the less will they do,


s: Now the Line's but a man with a gun in his hand,


s: An' Cavalry's only what horses can stand,


s: Artillery moves by the leave o' the ground,


s: But we are the men that do something all round,


s: I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus


s: There's only one Corps which is perfect--that's us;


s: An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers,


s: It got beyond all orders an' it got beyond all 'ope;


s: It got to shammin' wounded an' retirin' from the 'alt.


s: 'Ole companies was lookin' for the nearest road to slope;


s: It were just a bloomin' knock-out--an' our fault!


s: An' I wish I was dead 'fore I done what I did,


s: We was sick o' bein' punished, an' we let 'em know it, too;


s: An' a company-commander up an' 'it us with a sword,


s: An' some one shouted "'Ook it!" an' it come to sove-ki-poo,


s: An' we chucked our rifles from us--O my Gawd!


s: But, Christ! along the line o' flight they cut us up like sheep,


s: I 'eard the knives be'ind me, but I dursn't face my man,


s: Nor I don't know where I went to, 'cause I didn't 'alt to see,


s: Till I 'eard a beggar squealin' out for quarter as 'e ran,


s: An' I thought I knew the voice an'--it was me!


s: We was 'idin' under bedsteads more than 'arf a march away;


s: We was lyin' up like rabbits all about the countryside;


s: An' the major cursed 'is Maker 'cause 'e lived to see that day,


s: An' the colonel broke 'is sword acrost, an' cried.


s: We was rotten 'fore we started--we was never disciplined;


s: We made it out a favour if an order was obeyed;


s: Yes, every little drummer 'ad 'is rights an' wrongs to mind,


s: So we had to pay for teachin'--an' we paid!


s: The papers 'id it 'andsome, but you know the Army knows;


s: We was put to groomin' camels till the regiments withdrew,


s: An' they gave us each a medal for subduin' England's foes,


s: An' I 'ope you like my song--because it's true!


s: But I wish I was dead 'fore I done what I did,


s: The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time--


s: All the 'ole command, yuss, from Minden to Maiwand,


s: Then do not be discouraged, 'Eaven is your 'elper,


s: An' you mustn't swear an' curse, or you'll only catch it worse,


s: But fatigue it was their pride, and they would not be denied


s: The men that fought at Minden, they had anarchistic bombs


s: But they got it in the eye (same as you will by-an'-by)


s: The men that fought at Minden, they 'ad buttons up an' down,


s: But they didn't grouse an' shirk at an hour's extry work,


s: The men that fought at Minden, they was armed with musketoons,


s: I don't know what they were, but the sergeants took good care


s: The men that fought at Minden, they 'ad ever cash in 'and


s: But spent it gay an' free on their betters--such as me--


s: The men that fought at Minden, they was civil--yuss, they was--


s: But they got it with the toe (same as you will get it--so!)--


s: The men that fought at Minden, they was several other things


s: But that's the reason why, now the six-year men are dry,


s: Run an' get the beer, Johnny Raw--Johnny Raw!


s: We've got the cholerer in camp--it's worse than forty fights;


s: We're dyin' in the wilderness the same as Isrulites;


s: It's before us, an' be'ind us, an' we cannot get away,


s: An' the doctor's just reported we've ten more to-day!


s: Oh, strike your camp an' go, the Bugle's callin',


s: The dead are bushed an' stoned to keep 'em safe below;


s: The Band's a-doin' all she knows to cheer us;


s: The Chaplain's gone and prayed to Gawd to 'ear us--


s: Since August, when it started, it's been stickin' to our tail,


s: An' the sick-list to the Colonel makes ten more to-day.


s: There ain't no fun in women nor there ain't no bite to drink;


s: It's much too wet for shootin', we can only march and think;


s: An' at evenin', down the nullahs, we can 'ear the jackals say,


s: "Get up, you rotten beggars, you've ten more to-day!"


s: 'Twould make a monkey cough to see our way o' doin' things--


s: Lieutenants takin' companies an' captains takin' wings,


s: An' Lances actin' Sergeants--eight file to obey--


s: For we've lots o' quick promotion on ten deaths a day!


s: Our Colonel's white an' twitterly--'e gets no sleep nor food,


s: But mucks about in 'orspital where nothing does no good.


s: 'E sends us 'eaps o' comforts, all bought from 'is pay--


s: But there aren't much comfort 'andy on ten deaths a day.


s: Our Chaplain's got a banjo, an' a skinny mule 'e rides,


s: 'E's the proper kind o' padre for ten deaths a day.


s: An' Father Victor 'elps 'im with our Roman Catholicks--


s: He knows an 'eap of Irish songs an' rummy conjurin' tricks;


s: An' the two they works together when it comes to play or pray;


s: So we keep the ball a-rollin' on ten deaths a day.


s: We've got the cholerer in camp--we've got it 'ot an' sweet;


s: It ain't no Christmas dinner, but it's 'elped an' we must eat.


s: We've gone beyond the funkin', 'cause we've found it doesn't pay,


s: Then strike your camp an' go, the Rains are fallin',


s: The dead are bushed an' stoned to keep 'em safe below!


s: An' them that do not like it they can lump it,


s: An' them that cannot stand it they can jump it;


s: We've got to die somewhere--some way--some'ow--


s: Then, Number One, let down the tent-pole slow,


s: Knock out the pegs an' 'old the corners--so!


s: Fold in the flies, furl up the ropes, an' stow!


s: Oh, strike--oh, strike your camp an' go!


s: You never can say till you've tried 'em,


s: There's times when you'll think that you mightn't,


s: There's times when you'll know that you might;


s: But the things you will learn from the Yellow an' Brown,


s: But we lived on the square, like a true-married pair,


s: For she knifed me one night 'cause I wished she was white,


s: An' I wouldn't do such, 'cause I liked 'er too much,


s: For the more you 'ave known o' the others


s: An' the end of it's sittin' and thinkin',


s: So be warned by my lot (which I know you will not),


s: "D'yer know what 'e's like, Bill 'Awkins?"


s: "'E's the livin', breathin' image of an organ-grinder's monkey,


s: "I'd open 'is cheek to 'is chin-strap buckle,


s: "Look 'ere, where 'e comes, Bill 'Awkins!


s: "It isn't fit an' proper to be fightin' on a Sunday,


s: Inside--"Brother", an' it doesn't do no 'arm.


s: We met upon the Level an' we parted on the Square,


s: An' I was Junior Deacon in my Mother-Lodge out there!


s: There was no one like 'im, 'Orse or Foot,


s: An' because it was so, why, o' course 'e went an' died,


s: So it's knock out your pipes an' follow me!


s: An' it's finish up your swipes an' follow me!


s: An' she won't take 'er feed 'cause o' waitin' for 'is step,


s: An' the banns are up in church, for she's got the beggar hooked,


s: We fought 'bout a dog--last week it were--


s: But I strook 'im cruel 'ard, an' I wish I 'adn't now,


s: 'E was all that I 'ad in the way of a friend,


s: But I'd give my pay an' stripe for to get the beggar back,


s: An' it's finish off your swipes an' follow me!


s: Take 'im away!  'E's gone where the best men go.


s: Take 'im away!  An' the gun-wheels turnin' slow.


s: Take 'im away!  There's more from the place 'e come.


s: Take 'im away, with the limber an' the drum.


s: For it's "Three rounds blank" an' follow me,


s: But the Captain 'ad 'is jacket, an' the jacket it was new--


s: An' the wettin' of the jacket is the proper thing to do,


s: Nor we didn't keep 'im waitin' very long.


s: One day they gave us orders for to shell a sand redoubt,


s: But the Captain knew 'is dooty, an' he took the crackers out


s: An' he put some proper liquor in its place.


s: An' the Captain saw the shrapnel, which is six-an'-thirty clear.


s: "Will you draw the weight," sez 'e, "or will you draw the beer?"


s: An' we didn't keep 'im waitin' very long.


s: Then we trotted gentle, not to break the bloomin' glass,


s: Though the Arabites 'ad all their ranges marked;


s: But we dursn't 'ardly gallop, for the most was bottled Bass,


s: An' we'd dreamed of it since we was disembarked:


s: So we fired economic with the shells we 'ad in 'and,


s: But the beggars under cover 'ad the impidence to stand,


s: An' we couldn't keep 'em waitin' very long.


s: So we finished 'arf the liquor (an' the Captain took champagne),


s: An' the Arabites was shootin' all the while;


s: An' we left our wounded 'appy with the empties on the plain,


s: An' we used the bloomin' guns for pro-jec-tile!


s: We limbered up an' galloped--there were nothin' else to do--


s: An' the Battery came a-boundin' like a boundin' kangaroo,


s: But they didn't watch us comin' very long.


s: We was goin' most extended--we was drivin' very fine,


s: An' the Arabites were loosin' 'igh an' wide,


s: Till the Captain took the glassy with a rattlin' right incline,


s: An' we dropped upon their 'eads the other side.


s: Then we give 'em quarter--such as 'adn't up and cut,


s: An' the Captain stood a limberful of fizzy--somethin' Brutt,


s: But we didn't leave it fizzing very long.


s: We might ha' been court-martialled, but it all come out all right


s: There was every round expended, there was every gunner tight,


s: An' the Captain waved a corkscrew in 'is 'and.


s: The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone;


s: 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is own;


s: 'E keeps 'is side-arms awful:  'e leaves 'em all about,


s: An' then comes up the regiment an' pokes the 'eathen out.


s: All along o' dirtiness, all along o' mess,


s: All along o' doin' things rather-more-or-less,


s: All along of abby-nay, kul, an' hazar-ho,


s: Mind you keep your rifle an' yourself jus' so!


s: The young recruit is 'aughty--'e draf's from Gawd knows where;


s: They bid 'im show 'is stockin's an' lay 'is mattress square;


s: 'E calls it bloomin' nonsense--'e doesn't know no more--


s: An' then up comes 'is Company an' kicks 'im round the floor!


s: The young recruit is 'ammered--'e takes it very 'ard;


s: 'E 'angs 'is 'ead an' mutters--'e sulks about the yard;


s: 'E talks o' "cruel tyrants" 'e'll swing for by-an'-by,


s: An' the others 'ears an' mocks 'im, an' the boy goes orf to cry.


s: The young recruit is silly--'e thinks o' suicide;


s: 'E's lost 'is gutter-devil; 'e 'asn't got 'is pride;


s: But day by day they kicks 'im, which 'elps 'im on a bit,


s: Till 'e finds 'isself one mornin' with a full an' proper kit.


s: Gettin' clear o' dirtiness, gettin' done with mess,


s: Gettin' shut o' doin' things rather-more-or-less;


s: Not so fond of abby-nay, kul, nor hazar-ho,


s: Learns to keep 'is rifle an' 'isself jus' so!


s: The young recruit is 'appy--'e throws a chest to suit;


s: You see 'im grow mustaches; you 'ear 'im slap 'is boot;


s: 'E learns to drop the "bloodies" from every word 'e slings,


s: The cruel-tyrant-sergeants they watch 'im 'arf a year;


s: They watch 'im with 'is comrades, they watch 'im with 'is beer;


s: They watch 'im with the women at the regimental dance,


s: And the cruel-tyrant-sergeants send 'is name along for "Lance".


s: An' now 'e's 'arf o' nothin', an' all a private yet,


s: 'Is room they up an' rags 'im to see what they will get;


s: They rags 'im low an' cunnin', each dirty trick they can,


s: But 'e learns to sweat 'is temper an' 'e learns to sweat 'is man.


s: An', last, a Colour-Sergeant, as such to be obeyed,


s: 'E schools 'is men at cricket, 'e tells 'em on parade;


s: They sees 'em quick an' 'andy, uncommon set an' smart,


s: An' so 'e talks to orficers which 'ave the Core at 'eart.


s: 'E learns to do 'is watchin' without it showin' plain;


s: 'E learns to save a dummy, an' shove 'im straight again;


s: 'E learns to check a ranker that's buyin' leave to shirk;


s: An' when it comes to marchin' he'll see their socks are right,


s: An' when it comes to action 'e shows 'em 'ow to sight;


s: 'E knows their ways of thinkin' and just what's in their mind;


s: 'E knows when they are takin' on an' when they've fell be'ind.


s: 'E knows each talkin' corpril that leads a squad astray;


s: 'E feels 'is innards 'eavin', 'is bowels givin' way;


s: 'E sees the blue-white faces all tryin' 'ard to grin,


s: An' 'e stands an' waits an' suffers till it's time to cap 'em in.


s: An' now the hugly bullets come peckin' through the dust,


s: An' no one wants to face 'em, but every beggar must;


s: So, like a man in irons which isn't glad to go,


s: They moves 'em off by companies uncommon stiff an' slow.


s: Of all 'is five years' schoolin' they don't remember much


s: Excep' the not retreatin', the step an' keepin' touch.


s: It looks like teachin' wasted when they duck an' spread an' 'op,


s: But if 'e 'adn't learned 'em they'd be all about the shop!


s: An' now it's "'Oo goes backward?" an' now it's "'Oo comes on?"


s: And now it's "Get the doolies," an' now the captain's gone;


s: An' now it's bloody murder, but all the while they 'ear


s: 'Is voice, the same as barrick drill, a-shepherdin' the rear.


s: 'E's just as sick as they are, 'is 'eart is like to split,


s: The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone;


s: 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is own;


s: The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began,


s: But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!


s: Keep away from dirtiness--keep away from mess.


s: Don't get into doin' things rather-more-or-less!


s: Let's ha' done with abby-nay, kul, an' hazar-ho;


s: Mind you keep your rifle an' yourself jus' so!


s: For the wine was old and the night is cold,


s: So it was "Rounds!  What Rounds?" at two of a frosty night,


s: 'E'll need an affidavit pretty badly by-an'-by.


s: An' the corporal pulled an' the sergeant pushed,


s: Though it was "Rounds!  What Rounds?"  O corporal, 'old 'im up!


s: But we sluiced 'im down an' we washed 'im out,


s: When we saved 'im, smart as a bombardier,


s: An' it was "Pass!  All's well!"  'E's called me "Darlin' Jane"!


s: An' 'is eye was wild an' 'is 'air was wet,


s: But you ought to 'ave 'eard 'em markin' time


s: For it was "Right flank--wheel!" for "'Alt, an' stand at ease!"


s: An' "Left extend!" for "Centre close!"  O marker, shut your eye!


s: An' it was, "'Ere, sir, 'ere! before the Colonel sees!"


s: So he needed affidavits pretty badly by-an'-by.


s: There was just nine 'undred rank an' file


s: There was me 'e'd kissed in the sentry-box,


s: But I took my oath, which were Bible truth,


s: But there comes a night when the best gets tight,


s: We'll 'elp 'im for 'is mother, an' 'e'll 'elp us by-an'-by!


s: Nice while it lasted, an' now it is over--


s: Tear out your 'eart an' good-bye to your lover!


s: What's the use o' grievin', when the mother that bore you


s: (Mary, pity women!) knew it all before you?


s: When a man is tired there is naught will bind 'im;


s: All 'e solemn promised 'e will shove be'ind 'im.


s: What's the good o' prayin' for The Wrath to strike 'im


s: (Mary, pity women!), when the rest are like 'im?


s: All the more you give 'em the less are they for givin'--


s: Love lies dead, an' you cannot kiss 'im livin'.


s: Down the road 'e led you there is no returnin'


s: (Mary, pity women!), but you're late in learnin'!


s: What's the good o' pleadin', when the mother that bore you


s: Sleep on 'is promises an' wake to your sorrow


s: (Mary, pity women!), for we sail to-morrow!


s: It is within the bounds of possibility that the similarities of


s: conqueror by his strong faith in the Bible. Sir Walter, between


s: was founded on the universal idea in folk-lore of the nixies or


s: water-spirits, one of whom, in Norwegian legend, was seen weeping


s: In stern compliance Biorn bowed his haughty head, and began the


s: "Most willingly," replied Rolf. "I have long desired to have an


s: "And let us add our devout supplications to the Lord," said the


s: The priest looked tenderly at him, and would have spoken his holy


s: "I live in death," replied that other one with a fearful grin.


s: "Restless, quietless, I wander up and down."


s: "Thou must not perish here in the snow before my eyes."


s: "Thou must come up and sit on my horse."


s: "That I will." And all at once he started up out of the snow with


s: "Do not clasp me so tight with thy long arms, they are so cold."


s: "Do not breathe on me so with thy icy breath. All my strength is


s: "I do not know, father; he left me in the mountains."


s: "So'--Well, then, Rolf must remain here."


s: Sintram assented to all this, in deep and humble shame.


s: a peaceful man without provocation, and that, too, without giving


s: The spring that clothes with tend'rest green


s: "Sir knight, sir knight, oh! whither away


s: With thy snow-white sail on the foaming spray?"


s: Sing heigh, sing ho, for that land of flowers!


s: "Too long have I trod upon ice and snow;


s: He steer'd on his course by night and day


s: "Hail to thee! hail to thee! lady bright,


s: Mine own shalt thou be ere morning light."


s: Sing heigh, sing ho, for that land of flowers'


s: "For you speak to the margrave's chosen bride."


s: "Your lover may come with his shield and spear,


s: And the victor shall win thee, lady dear!"


s: Most fair are the maidens of Naples Bay."


s: And the world cannot now my purpose turn."


s: Then came the young margrave, bold and brave;


s: And then the fierce Northman joyously cried,


s: "Now shall I possess lands, castle, and bride!"


s: Some weeks after this, in the twilight of evening, Sintram, very


s: "Afraid of you!" cried Sintram, with a wild laugh.


s: The little man, much pleased, nodded his head; and as they paced


s: together up and down a retired elm-walk, he began discoursing as


s: "Tell me at once what happened next," stammered Sintram.


s: "And he accepted those terms, or he was a fool!" cried the youth.


s: "And of all the German trading-towns," continued Montfaucon, "the


s: unfruitful; but, compared with the wise Gotthard Lenz and his


s: Gabrielle hesitated an instant; and Sintram, who had resumed his


s: "A man of honour," said Biorn confidently.


s: of Hogni, the last of his race, had there ended darkly a sad and


s: As the seventh night, the last before the day of combat, was just


s: These wondrous tones floated over the plain, and reached the tent


s: Now the night had passed away, and the east was glowing; and on


s: In sight of both armies, with glowing cheeks and looks of modest


s: trumpets of the assembled troops greeted the youth with stunning


s: "The strife at length hath found its end,


s: Meanwhile Sintram was speaking earnestly to his good Rolf; and at


s: "Sing heigh, sing ho, for that land of flowers,"


s: On a sudden old Rolf appeared, returning home from a visit to the


s: "Methinks that I have heard thee before."


s: "I live,--and shall live longer than thou."


s: "Give me hold of thy hand, and let me help thee to get up."


s: His guests stared at him doubtingly; and with a strange air of


s: Sintram had not returned home, when those of the castle betook


s: At the close of one of these martial exercises, old Rolf advanced


s: At length the icy reign of winter began in all its glory. On this


s: Joyful at a combat so long untried as almost to be new, Folko of


s: Sintram shuddered. Then his hateful companion began to praise


s: Sintram planted his staff firmly in the ground, and stopped. How


s: The Norwegians burst forth with shouts of joyful surprise at the


s: That was a mournful journey on which the youth and his aged


s: "But, Rolf, look there! look again carefully! Now they move, they


s: "Beware of disappointing me again!" said the little Master to the


s: Then the first rays fell on the snow, and the little Master ran,


s: "For Heaven's sake," whispered the good Rolf to his knight--"for


s: Sintram bowed himself towards the chaplain with his arms crossed


s: over his breast, and said, with a gentle smile, "Much have I been


s: "Not killed?" asked the pilgrim in a scarce audible voice.


s: "I feel, too, as though a spring were gushing up in the barren


s: "But it will be granted!" said the chaplain, joyfully. "'He that


s: humbleth himself shall be exalted;' and I fear not to take one


s: The dawn had almost appeared, when Rolf, who had been asleep, was


s: Accordingly towards mid-day the chaplain returned alone. He could


s: "What means this?" asked Folko very gravely.


s: At a sign from Folko, a battle-axe was brought him by one of his


s: The hard spirit of the fierce lord of the castle was now quite


s: "Wilt thou come with me?" whispered the strange being; "it is the


s: At this moment the good Rolf appeared above on the rampart; a


s: Sintram climbed up the wall of the moat, and made a sign to his


s: Sintram was seated near the drawbridge, touching the strings of


s: the lute, and shedding some tears on the golden chords, almost as


s: "The good God knows," answered Sintram; "I know them not."


s: After thus fearfully erring, Sintram could find no comfort but in


s: But all remained as it was, and Sintram's fearful dreams at


s: He took his horse from the stable and rode forth in the gathering


s: their ears. Sintram gave his horse hastily to some retainers in


s: "Yes, do so, Sir Sintram," said the little Master, with a laugh.


s: At length the dawn of morning appeared through the windows of the


s: Before entering the rocky pass, the knight, with a prayer and


s: "You have cowardly beasts with you," said the latter, in a low,


s: Sintram was unable, in the ever-increasing darkness, rightly to


s: "Good, sir knight; then ride with me through the valley."


s: "I am going through the valley, but I want no companions."


s: "He will return no more," said Death, in a kindly tone.


s: "And now I am become wholly thine, my stern companion?"


s: They heard the sound of Sintram's spurs on the stone steps, and


s: As the day wore on, the stillness in the hall increased. The last


s: "In whose sweet presence sorrow dares not lower


s: "God's will be done!" said the knight, and he rose up full of


s: Plunging and labouring on in a tide of visions,


s: Forward I pushed my way as amid waste waters


s: Through whose eddies there glimmered the customed landscape


s: Blotted to feeble mist.  And the coomb and the upland


s: Ancient chalk-pit, milestone, rills in the grass-flat


s: Seemed but a ghost-like gauze, and no substantial


s: What were the infinite spectacles bulking foremost


s: Hindering me to discern my paced advancement


s: What were the re-creations killing the daytime


s: O they were speechful faces, gazing insistent,


s: Some as with slow-born tears that brinily trundled


s: Cheeks that were fair in their flush-time, ash now with anguish,


s: Yes, I could see them, feel them, hear them, address them -


s: And, alas, onwards, shaken by fierce unreason,


s: Smitten by years-long wryness born of misprision,


s: Then there would breast me shining sights, sweet seasons


s: Instruments of strings with the tenderest passion


s: Also there rose a headland of hoary aspect


s: Frilled by the nimb of the morning as two friends stood there


s: Wherefore they knew not--touched by the fringe of an ecstasy


s: Clay cadavers of those who had shared in the dramas,


s: Passions all spent, chiefest the one of the broad brow


s: So did beset me scenes miscalled of the bygone,


s: Past the clump, and down to where lay the beheld ones;


s: For, their lost revisiting manifestations


s: Much had I slighted, caring not for their purport,


s: Things more coveted, reckoned the better worth calling


s: Thus do they now show hourly before the intenser


s: As they were ghosts avenging their slights by my bypast


s: Show, too, with fuller translation than rested upon them


s: Hence wag the tongues of the passing people, saying


s: "Ah--whose is this dull form that perambulates, seeing nought


s: Whithersoever his footsteps turn in his farings,


s: The glebe cow drooled.  Till God called, "No;


s: Than you who are helpless in such matters.


s: Hell's floor for so much threatening . . .


s: And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.


s: Cold currents thrid, and turn to rhythmic tidal lyres.


s: Lie lightless, all their sparkles bleared and black and blind.


s: And query:  "What does this vaingloriousness down here?" . . .


s: The Immanent Will that stirs and urges everything


s: A Shape of Ice, for the time far and dissociate.


s: In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.


s: The intimate welding of their later history,


s: On being anon twin halves of one august event,


s: And consummation comes, and jars two hemispheres.


s: Where your presence was as a leaf that skims


s: That were light on the green as a thistledown ball,


s: And those mute ministrations to one and to all


s: Of the bordering flowers swam unheeded away,


s: And I marked not the charm in the changes of day


s: Your walk was so soundless I did not know


s: And I saw the large luminous living eyes


s: And why we were there, and by whose strange laws


s: Whether to sally and see thee, girl of my dreams,


s: And see thee not!  How vast the difference seems


s: Just now.  Yet this same sun will slant its beams


s: On our two mounds, and then what will the difference weigh!


s: Yet I will see thee, maiden dear, and make


s: Of what remains to us amid this brake Cimmerian


s: Through which we grope, and from whose thorns we ache,


s: Round our frail faltering progress for some path or plan.


s: By briefest meeting something sure is won;


s: Groan in their bondage till oblivion supervene.


s: Small and untraced, yet that will ever be


s: Amid the spheres, as part of sick Life's antidote.


s: Sinking down by the gate I discern the thin moon,


s: And a blackbird tries over old airs in the pine,


s: But the moon is a sorry one, sad the bird's tune,


s: For this spot is unknown to that Heartmate of mine.


s: Did my Heartmate but haunt here at times such as now,


s: The song would be joyous and cheerful the moon;


s: But she will see never this gate, path, or bough,


s: Nor I find a joy in the scene or the tune.


s: And the apple-tree shadows travel along.


s: Soon their intangible track will be run,


s: And we stayed, because of the pelting storm,


s: Though the horse had stopped; yea, motionless


s: Then the downpour ceased, to my sharp sad pain,


s: And the glass that had screened our forms before


s: Flew up, and out she sprang to her door:


s: That ducks preen out in changing weathers


s: Yes, eve's quick mood had run its course,


s: Of such sweet words in such bright phrase.


s: I sought each fragment, patched and mended;


s: Were past my search, destroyed for ever:


s: They were your name and place; and never


s: Some heavy thought constrained each face,


s: Whither?  Who knows, indeed . . . And yet


s: There are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand


s: For thinking, dreaming, dying on, and at crises when I stand,


s: Say, on Ingpen Beacon eastward, or on Wylls-Neck westwardly,


s: I seem where I was before my birth, and after death may be.


s: They hang about at places, and they say harsh heavy things -


s: Men with a frigid sneer, and women with tart disparagings.


s: Down there I seem to be false to myself, my simple self that was,


s: Who yet has something in common with himself, my chrysalis.


s: I cannot go to the great grey Plain; there's a figure against the


s: Nobody sees it but I, and it makes my breast beat out of tune;


s: For everybody but me, in whose long vision they stand there fast.


s: There's a ghost in Froom-side Vale, thin lipped and vague, in a


s: There is one in the railway-train whenever I do not want it near,


s: As for one rare fair woman, I am now but a thought of hers,


s: So I am found on Ingpen Beacon, or on Wylls-Neck to the west,


s: Or else on homely Bulbarrow, or little Pilsdon Crest,


s: I shall rot here, with those whom in their day


s: And alien ones who, ere they chilled to clay,


s: Will in your distant grave-place ever neighbour you.


s: Will fall on my mound and within the hour


s: One robin never haunt our two green covertures.


s: Some other thrill the panes with other tunes


s: No selfsame chords compose our common lullaby.


s: No linking symbol show thereon for our tale's sake.


s: And in the monotonous moils of strained, hard-run


s: The eternal tie which binds us twain in one


s: Stretching across the miles that sever you from me.


s: Its shires and towns and rivers lined in varnished artistry -


s: Coloured purple, with a margin of blue sea.


s: --'Twas a day of latter summer, hot and dry;


s: Ay, even the waves seemed drying as we walked on, she and I,


s: She informed me what would happen by and by.


s: This hanging map depicts the coast and place,


s: And resuscitates therewith our unexpected troublous case


s: And her tension, and the aspect of her face.


s: Weeks and weeks we had loved beneath that blazing blue,


s: Which had lost the art of raining, as her eyes to-day had too,


s: Shot our firmament with rays of ruddy hue.


s: For the wonder and the wormwood of the whole


s: So, the map revives her words, the spot, the time,


s: And its episode comes back in pantomime.


s: Now that its spare and desolate figure gleams


s: A looming Alp-height than a guise of him


s: Who scaled its horn with ventured life and limb,


s: In its quaint glooms, keen lights, and rugged trim.


s: At his last change, when Life's dull coils unwind,


s: Will he, in old love, hitherward escape,


s: And his low voicing haunt its slipping snows


s: When dawn that calls the climber dyes them rose?


s: In this fair niche above the unslumbering sea,


s: That sentrys up and down all night, all day,


s: From cove to promontory, from ness to bay,


s: The Fates have fitly bidden that he should be Pillowed eternally.


s: - It was as though a garland of red roses


s: Had fallen about the hood of some smug nun


s: When irresponsibly dropped as from the sun,


s: In fulth of numbers freaked with musical closes,


s: When, down a terraced street whose pavements lay


s: Glassing the sunshine into my bent eyes,


s: I walked and read with a quick glad surprise


s: The passionate pages of his earlier years,


s: Fraught with hot sighs, sad laughters, kisses, tears;


s: Fresh-fluted notes, yet from a minstrel who


s: Blew them not naively, but as one who knew


s: I still can hear the brabble and the roar


s: At those thy tunes, O still one, now passed through


s: That fitful fire of tongues then entered new!


s: Their power is spent like spindrift on this shore;


s: - His singing-mistress verily was no other


s: Than she the Lesbian, she the music-mother


s: Who leapt, love-anguished, from the Leucadian steep


s: And one can hold in thought that nightly here


s: His phantom may draw down to the water's brim,


s: Lone shine upon the heaving hydrosphere,


s: And mariners wonder as they traverse near,


s: One dreams him sighing to her spectral form:


s: "O teacher, where lies hid thy burning line;


s: And her smile back:  "Disciple true and warm,


s: So here, beneath the waking constellations,


s: Where the waves peal their everlasting strains,


s: And their dull subterrene reverberations


s: Shake him when storms make mountains of their plains -


s: Him once their peer in sad improvisations,


s: And deft as wind to cleave their frothy manes -


s: I leave him, while the daylight gleam declines


s: When you slowly emerged from the den of Time,


s: And fleshed you fair out of shapeless slime,


s: Shown forth in the dark upon some dim sheet,


s: "Such a forced device," you may say, "is meet


s: Of this wailful world, or he could not bear


s: - But since I was framed in your first despair


s: And to-morrow the whole of me disappears,


s: The truth should be told, and the fact be faced


s: That had best been faced in earlier years:


s: Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar -


s: Following in files across a twilit plain


s: A strange and mystic form the foremost bore.


s: And had already stirred me, I was wrought


s: To consciousness of sorrow even as they.


s: The fore-borne shape, to my blurred eyes,


s: At first seemed man-like, and anon to change


s: To an amorphous cloud of marvellous size,


s: At times endowed with wings of glorious range.


s: Yet throughout all it symboled none the less


s: Potency vast and loving-kindness strong.


s: Towards the moving columns without a word;


s: They, growing in bulk and numbers as they went,


s: Struck out sick thoughts that could be overheard:-


s: Imaged as we, thy knell who shall survive?


s: Whence came it we were tempted to create


s: Will to bless those by circumstance accurst,


s: And longsuffering, and mercies manifold.


s: And need of solace, we grew self-deceived,


s: "Till, in Time's stayless stealthy swing,


s: Who quavered, sank; and now has ceased to be.


s: Darkling, and languid-lipped, we creep and grope


s: To start the wheels of day with trustful prayer,


s: And feel a blest assurance he was there!


s: Whither will wanderers turn distracted eyes


s: For some fixed star to stimulate their pace


s: Towards the goal of their enterprise?" . . .


s: Sweet women, youths, men, all incredulous,


s: Who chimed as one:  "This figure is of straw,


s: This requiem mockery!  Still he lives to us!"


s: Many I had known:  with all I sympathized;


s: And though struck speechless, I did not forget


s: That what was mourned for, I, too, once had prized.


s: The insistent question for each animate mind,


s: And gazing, to my growing sight there seemed


s: A pale yet positive gleam low down behind,


s: "See you upon the horizon that small light -


s: Swelling somewhat?"  Each mourner shook his head.


s: Some were right good, and many nigh the best . . .


s: Thus dazed and puzzled 'twixt the gleam and gloom


s: "It is not death that harrows us," they lipped,


s: "The soundless cell is in itself relief,


s: For life is an unfenced flower, benumbed and nipped


s: At unawares, and at its best but brief."


s: The speakers, sundry phantoms of the gone,


s: Had risen like filmy flames of phosphor dye,


s: As if the palest of sheet lightnings shone


s: From the sward near me, as from a nether sky.


s: And much surprised was I that, spent and dead,


s: They should not, like the many, be at rest,


s: "Why, having slipped life, hark you back distressed?


s: "We are among the few death sets not free,


s: The hurt, misrepresented names, who come


s: At each year's brink, and cry to History


s: "We are stript of rights; our shames lie unredressed,


s: Our deeds in full anatomy are not shown,


s: Our words in morsels merely are expressed


s: On the scriptured page, our motives blurred, unknown."


s: Then all these shaken slighted visitants sped


s: Into the vague, and left me musing there


s: On fames that well might instance what they had said,


s: Until the New-Year's dawn strode up the air.


s: - "Ah, no; they sit and think, 'What use!


s: What good will planting flowers produce?


s: - "Nay:  when she heard you had passed the Gate


s: And the young wife looks in her husband's face,


s: And then at her guest's, and shows in her own


s: Her sense that she fills an envied place;


s: And says there was never so sweet a room.


s: And the happy young housewife does not know


s: That the woman beside her was first his choice,


s: Till the fates ordained it could not be so . . .


s: The guest sits smiling and sips her tea,


s: And he throws her a stray glance yearningly.