But one has done that for the regiment”—then the Colonel shook his hand—
“So I’ll ask one simple favour from my Queen and my native land!”
“If ever a man did wrong, sir, as a thing devoid of pluck,
And fought with a poor, weak woman, and trusted then to luck—
That man he sits before you, the hero of railway cars—
Don’t let that man be e’er replaced to d—n the Tenth Hussars!”
Then a cheer went up from the regiment, and echoed across the sand,
And was borne on the wings of justice to a woman-loving land,
When the Queen on her throne will heed it, and the Colonel Prince won’t dare
To reinstate a man who tried a lady to ensnare.