Patriotic Song / A book of English verse, being an anthology of the patriotic poetry of the British Empire, from the defeat of the Spanish Armada till the death of Queen Victoria

by Unknown

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Departmental Ditties (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1886. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1899). By permission of the author and Messrs. George Newnes, Limited. ‘The Galley-Slave’ is understood to be a mystical name for the Indian Civil Servant.

VII.—SOUTH AFRICA

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Ephemerides (London: 1828).

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By permission of the author and the editor of Literature, in which publication (December 9, 1899) the poem first appeared.

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Published in G. W. Steevens’ posthumous volume, Things Seen: with Memoir by W. E. Henley (Blackwood, 1900). By permission of the author. The quatrain is inscribed ‘G. W. S., December 10, 1869—January 15, 1900.’ The lines were written of G. W. Steevens, journalist and war correspondent, who died at Ladysmith during the siege.