And she for whom thou sighest now, That fond and faithful she! Already smiles on other Aides, And thinks no more of thee. A simple primrose is to her But that and nothing more: And thou wilt find some newer love Before thou touchest shore. Another lord my palace treads, My reign is past and o’er: Of me thy shades have seen the last, Rheumatic Barrackpore! Let Simla’s typhoid-laden air Another victim know, And envy his ungrateful race That wail in health below. Farewell to levees, pageants, routs, To weeks of endless dinners; To balls where I must lead the dance With capering saints and sinners. Farewell to Rajahs and Nabobs: To fetid pan and attar, To coming Russians in Herat And Rent Bills in Calcutta. Farewell, Societies where meet In concord, whites and blacks: Associations that defend What nobody attacks: The long addresses that pursue A Viceroy where he goes: Farewell to Hunter’s bright romance And Kimberley’s dull prose. Farewell to Budgets and Reports, To critics in the press, Who nightly weave Arabian tales Of fiction, fact and guess: To hourly fears lest Colvin’s glance Of deficits should tell; Riots, rupees, and zemindars! To one and all farewell! And all the scathing paper wars Where Secretaries fight To prove how sharp the pens they wield, How smartly they can write: Official minutes, drafts and notes And boxes that they fill, To my successors I bequeath With one unfinished Bill. With thee, my bark, I’ll swiftly speed Athwart the ocean’s span, Nor care what land thou bear’st me to, So not to Hindustan. Welcome, welcome, ye hastening waves That homeward wing my flight! Welcome the Franchise and the Lords. Distracted land--Good night. H. S. J. CHAPTER IX LORD DUFFERIN’S VICEROYALTY Lord Dufferin Succeeds Lord Ripon as Viceroy--Durbar at Rawal Pindi to Meet the Amir of Afghanistan--A Few Annoyances--How it All Ended--Some Presents--Outline of a Viceroy’s Tour--A Nasty Fall--Sale of Confederacy Horses--“Father Time”--Parlour Fireworks--A Ride to the Pyramids--Unostentatious Charity--Some Impositions The Earl of Dufferin succeeded the Marquis of Ripon in 1884. India hoped great things of him, as he was a man thoroughly experienced in dealing with delicate situations, having been Governor-General of the Dominion of Canada, and Ambassador at St. Petersburg; he had also from 1864 to 1866 been Under-Secretary of State for India.