In future, let us recollect
This fact, and oft remind them
That England’s ready to protect
The wives they’ve left behind them.
Funny Folks. March 7, 1885.
When the sand of the lonely desert has covered the plains of strife,
Where the English fought for the rescue, and the Arab stood for his life;
When the crash of the battle is over, and healed are our wounds and scars,
There will live in our island story a Tale of the Tenth Hussars.