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Macmillan's Magazine, November 1889. By permission of the Author. Kamal Khan is a Pathan; and the scene of this exploit—which, I am told, is perfectly consonant with the history and tradition of Guides and Pathans both—is the North Frontier country in the Peshawar-Kohat region, say, between Abazai and Bonair, behind which is stationed the Punjab Irregular Frontier Force—‘the steel head of the lance couched for the defence of India.’ As for the Queen's Own Corps of Guides, to the general ‘God's Own Guides’ (from its exclusiveness and gallantry), it comprehends both horse and foot, is recruited from Sikhs, Pathans, Rajputs, Afghans, all the fighting races, is officered both by natives and by Englishmen, and in all respects is worthy of this admirable ballad.

Ressaldar the native leader of a ressala or troop of horse Tongue a barren and naked strath—‘what geologists call a fan’ Gut of the Tongue the narrowest part of the strath dust-devils dust-clouds blown by a whirlwind

[CXXVI]

National Observer, 4th April 1891. At the burning of the Court-House at Cork, ‘Above the portico a flagstaff bearing the Union Jack remained fluttering in the air for some time, but ultimately when it fell the crowds rent the air with shouts, and seemed to see significance in the incident.’—Daily Papers. Author's Note.

INDEX

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A good sword and a trusty hand [207]
All is finished! and at length [217]
Alone stood brave Horatius [196]
Amid the loud ebriety of war [264]
And Rustum gazed in Sohrab's face, and said [280]
Arm, arm, arm, arm! the scouts are all come in [13]
As I was walking all alane [79]
Ask nothing more of me, sweet [316]
As the spring-tides, with heavy plash [153]
At anchor in Hampton Roads we lay [227]
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay [232]
Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise [200]
Attend you, and give ear awhile [73]
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones [28]
A wet sheet and a flowing sea [148]
Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow! [257]
Bid me to live, and I will live [18]
Blow high, blow low, let tempests tear [89]
Build me straight, O worthy Master [208]
But by the yellow Tiber [183]
But see! look up—on Flodden bent [116]
By this, though deep the evening fell [119]
Captain, or Colonel, or Knight in Arms [27]
Come, all ye jolly sailors bold [92]
Condemned to Hope's delusive mine [45]
Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloud [28]
Darkly, sternly, and all alone [156]
Day by day the vessel grew [214]
Day, like our souls, is fiercely dark [146]
Eleven men of England [244]
England, queen of the waves, whose green inviolate girdle enrings thee round [317]
Erle Douglas on his milke-white steede [49]
Fair stood the wind for France [6]
Farewell! farewell! the voice you hear [133]
Farewell, ye dungeons dark and strong [95]
Get up! get up for shame! The blooming morn [15]
God prosper long our noble king [47]
God who created me [328]
Go fetch to me a pint o' wine [97]
Good Lord Scroope to the hills is gane [64]
Hame, hame, hame, hame fain wad I be [147]
Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands [322]
He has called him forty Marchmen bold [69]
Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor Tom Bowling [90]
He spoke, and as he ceased he wept aloud [272]
He spoke, and Sohrab kindled at his taunts [267]
He spoke; but Rustum gazed, and gazed, and stood [275]
High-spirited friend [12]
How happy is he born or taught [11]
I am the mashed fireman with breast-bone broken [254]
If doughty deeds my lady please [88]
If sadly thinking [91]
I love contemplating, apart [140]
In the ship-yard stood the Master [210]
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan [136]
Iphigeneia, when she heard her doom [138]
I said, when evil men are strong [105]
Is life worth living? Yes, so long [308]
It is not growing like a tree [13]
It is not to be thought of that the Flood [101]
It is not yours, O mother, to complain [326]
It was a' for our rightfu' King [99]
I wish I were where Helen lies [77]
Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side [329]
King Philip had vaunted his claims [324]
Lars Porsena of Clusium [179]
Last night, among his fellow-roughs [242]
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour [102]
Mortality, behold and fear [15]
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold [179]
My boat is on the shore [164]
My dear and only love, I pray [31]
Next morn the Baron climbed the tower [114]
Nobly, nobly Cape St. Vincent to the north-west died away [248]
Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note [172]
Now all the youth of England are on fire [2]
Now entertain conjecture of a time [4]
Now fell the sword of Gunnar, and rose up red in the air [297]
Now the noon was long passed over when again the rumour arose [304]
Now we bear the king [10]
Now while the Three were tightening [189]
Now word is gane to the bold Keeper [67]
O born in days when wits were fresh and clear [282]
O Brignall banks are wild and fair [126]
O England is a pleasant place for them that's rich and high [260]
Of Nelson and the North [144]
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend [1]
Oft in the pleasant summer years [311]
O have ye na heard o' the fause Sakelde [66]
O how comely it is, and how reviving [31]
O joy of creation [323]
O Mary, at thy window be [98]
Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee [100]
On the sea and at the Hogue, sixteen hundred and ninety-two [248]
Othere, the old sea-captain [223]
Our English archers bent their bowes [51]
O Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls [165]
O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west [112]
Pibroch of Donuil Dhu [129]
Ruin seize thee, ruthless King [80]
Should auld acquaintance be forgot [96]
Simon Danz has come home again [228]
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God [103]
Still the song goeth up from Gunnar, though his harp to earth be laid [301]
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright [19]
Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind [32]
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold [150]
The boy stood on the burning deck [175]
The breaking waves dashed high [177]
The captain stood on the carronade: ‘First Lieutenant,’ says he [174]
The charge of the gallant three hundred, the Heavy Brigade [239]
The fifteenth day of July [60]
The forward youth that would appear [34]
The glories of our birth and state [20]
The herring loves the merry moonlight [131]
The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece [167]
The King sits in Dunfermline town [57]
The last sunbeam [258]
The Moorish King rides up and down [160]
The newes was brought to Eddenborrow [56]
The night is past, and shines the sun [151]
The Sea! the Sea, the open Sea [149]
The stag at eve had drunk his fill [121]
The weary day rins down and dies [319]
The winds were yelling, the waves were swelling [205]
Then speedilie to wark we gaed [71]
Then with a bitter smile, Rustum began [269]
Then with a heavy groan, Rustum bewailed [277]
This, this is he; softly a while [30]
Through the black, rushing smoke bursts [265]
Thus with imagined wing our swift scene flies [3]
Tiger, tiger, burning bright [94]
'Tis time this heart should be unmoved [171]
Toll for the Brave [85]
To mute and to material things [107]
To my true king I offered free from stain [206]
To the Lords of Convention 'twas Claver'se who spoke [134]
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won [40]
Up from the meadows rich with corn [230]
Vain is the dream! However Hope may rave [325]
We come in arms, we stand ten score [284]
Welcome, wild north-easter [262]
When George the Third was reigning a hundred years ago [285]
When I consider how my light is spent [29]
When I have borne in memory what has tamed [101]
When Love with unconfinèd wings [33]
When the British warrior queen [86]
When the head of Bran [290]
Where the remote Bermudas ride [39]
Why sitt'st thou by that ruined hall [130]
Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro [335]
With stout Erle Percy, there was slaine [54]
Would you hear of an old-time sea-fight [255]
Ye Mariners of England [143]
Ye shall know that in Atli's feast-hall on the side that joined the house [293]
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more [21]