Live by the sword and by the sword
Ye surely die: thus saith the Lord—
And die despised of men.
TO OOM PAUL KRUGER.
ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY.
His shield a skin, his sword a prayer:
Seventy-five years old to-day!
Yet mailed young hosts are marshaling there
To hound down in his native lair—
Oom Paul Kruger, South Africa.