 | 1861 - 788 pages
...door, In grey soft eddyings hung : Must he then watch it rise no more, Doom'd by himself, so young? Yes, honour calls ! — with strength like steel He...Indians whine and kneel; An English lad must die. 1 The Buffs, or West Kent Regiment. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent,... | |
 | 1861 - 520 pages
...grey soft eddyings hung : Must he then watch it rise no more, Doom'cl by liiniself, so young? Tes, honour calls ! — with strength like steel He put...Indians whine and kneel; An English lad must die. 1 The Buffs, or West Kent Regiment. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent,... | |
 | Robert James Leslie M'Ghee - British - 1862 - 418 pages
...duskey Indians whine and kneel, An English lad must die. Ami thus with eye that would not shrink, \Vith knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink To his red grave he went. Vain mightiest fleets of irun framed, Vain these all-shatt'ring <;uns ; Unless proud Kngl.ind... | |
 | Robert James Leslie M'Ghee - China - 1862 - 408 pages
...by himself so young ? Yes, honour calls! with strength like steev He puts the vision by; Let duskey Indians whine and kneel, An English lad must die. And thus with eye that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink To his red grave... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1863 - 314 pages
...door In gray soft eddyings hung : Must he then watch it rise no more, Doomed by himself so young ? 4. Yes ; honour calls ! with strength like steel, He...die. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knees to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. 5. Vain, mightiest... | |
 | Sir Francis Hastings Doyle - 1866 - 392 pages
...door, In gray soft eddyings hung : Must he then watch it rise no more, Doom'd by himself, so young ? Yes, honour calls !—with strength like steel He...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed ; Vain, those all-shattering guns ; Unless proud England... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin) - 1868 - 458 pages
...watch it rise no more, Doomed by himself, so young? Yes, honour calls ! — with strength like steel 25 He put the vision by ; Let dusky Indians whine and...eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, 30 Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. Vain, mightiest fleets, of iron framed... | |
 | Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - Great Britain - 1871 - 394 pages
...In grey, soft eddyings hung, Must he,' then, watch it rise no more, Doomed by himself so young? IT. Yes, honour calls, with strength like steel He put...dusky Indians whine and kneel, An English lad must (lie. Anil thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...gray soft eddyings hung ; Must he then watch it rise no more, Doomed by himself so young ? Yes, honor s 2 SAnd thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1872 - 396 pages
...he then watch it rise no more, s" E u £ H Doomed by himself, so young ? K u O K K O < £ g 8 2 I : Yes, honour calls ! — with strength like steel He...Unfaltering on its dreadful brink, To his red grave he went. > O K E * The Earl of Elgin accompanied the British army (which was commanded by Sir Hope Grant)... | |
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He put the vision by. Let dusky Indians whine and kneel, An English lad must die. And thus, with eyes that would not shrink, With knee to man unbent, Unfaltering on its dreadful brink To his red grave he went. 
