BOER WAR LYRICS BY LOUIS SELMER THE Abbey Press PUBLISHERS 114 FIFTH AVENUE London NEW YORK Montreal Copyright, 1903, by THE Abbey Press CONTENTS. PAGE Prelude vii On the Trail of the Lion 3 The Gibbet-Song 28 The Scar 48 To England: A Forecast 56 War 60 Clio 66 Ave Pax 68 Alpha 70 Omega 71 Greatness 72 Peter Cronje 82 Christian De Wet 84 Oom Paul 85 Cecil Rhodes 87 Chamberlain 89 Salisbury 90 Peace Pending 92 Peace 96 After 99 Christian De Wet 101 Sine Die 103 A Concordance 104 PREFACE. Most of the verses in this little volume were conceived and written, if not quite finished, at the time of Cronje's surrender at Paardeberg.