May outstrip a surrendering wire;
Our allies and our foes are already at blows,
And the fat’s in the Afghan fire.”
The Saturday Review. April 11, 1885.
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A BALLAD OF THE GREAT ELECTION BATTLE.
December, 1885.
(Some way after
Drayton’s Ballad of Agincourt.)
Fair stood the wind (we thought),
Ere the great fight was fought,