Let the moralist stoop to mercy, that balm of all souls that live;

For better than all forgetting is the wonderful word “Forgive!”

Punch. March 15, 1884.


A Tale of the Tenth Hussars.

(Not to-day, Baker.)

When the train, on its lonely journey, was near to the scene of strife

Where the woman fought for her honour—far dearer to her than life;

When the crash of the opening doorway left her standing outside the cars,

It gave to our island a story of one of the Tenth Hussars.