Begone, begone, until life is departed,
And still are the hearts of the true and the brave!
We’ll weep for the warriors who died noble-hearted;
We’ll curse at the coward who sued like a slave.
Toffer.
(Sir Louis Cavagnari, the English Envoy to Afghanistan, and his staff having been murdered in the Cabul, English troops hastened to that city which was captured on Christmas Eve, 1879. Yakoob Khan, accused of complicity in the massacre, was sent as a prisoner to India.)
Second Prize.
Away, away with the Ameer unlucky!
(Thus murmured the Viceroy o’er India’s plain;)
No oyster fished up by a pearl-diver plucky,