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
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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
English poetry; Patriotic poetry, English
_In Divers Tones_ (Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1887). By permission
of the author.
CXCVII-CXCVIII
_Beyond the Hills of Dream_ (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899). By
permission of author and publishers. The first had previously appeared
in _The Westminster Gazette_ (August, 1897), and the second in _The
Toronto Globe_ (Christmas Number, 1899).
CXCIX-CC
The first is from _Poems Old and New_ (Toronto: William Briggs, 1900),
and the second from _The Soul’s Quest and Other Poems_ (London: Kegan
Paul & Co., 1888). By permission of the author.
CCI
_Canadian Monthly_ (August, 1897). By permission of the author.
CCII
_Watchers of Twilight_ (Montreal: T. H. Warren, 1894). By permission of
the author. Line 2 is a quotation from William Watson’s _Last Words to
the Colonies_.
CCIII
_In Various Moods_ (Toronto: William Briggs, 1894). By permission of
the author.
VI.--INDIA
CCIV
_Miscellaneous Verses_ (Calcutta: Sanders, Cones & Co., 1848).
_Gunga_ (l. 49)=the Ganges.
CCV
_Cornhill Magazine_ (September, 1868), and _Verses Written in India_
(Kegan Paul & Co., 1889). By permission of author and publishers.
The massacre which suggested this poem took place near Mohundi, in Oudh
(June, 1857). The lives of all the English prisoners would have been
spared had they consented to profess Mahometanism by repeating the
usual short formula.
CCVI-CCVIII
_Indian Lyrics_ (Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1884). By permission
of the author.
The Author’s Note on the second is as follows:--‘Over the well rises a
pedestal supporting a statue in white marble--the Angel of Pity. Below
is the inscription: _Sacred to the perpetual memory of a great company
of Christian people, chiefly women and children, who near this spot
were cruelly massacred by the followers of the rebel Nana Dhoondoo
Punth of Bithoor; and cast, the dying with the dead, into the well
below, on the 15th day of July 1857._’
As to the third,--
l. 7. _peepuls._ The peepul (or pepul) tree.
8. _poinsianas._ The _poinciana regia_, a flowering shrub
introduced from Madagascar.
CCIX-CCXI
All three appeared first in _The Times of India_, and are included in
_Soldierin’_ (Bombay: Indian Textile Journal Co., 1899). By permission
of author and publishers.
As to the second,--l. 28. _sangared._ Sangars are temporary stone
shelters for riflemen.
As to the third,--During the operations in Tirah (1897) the pass of
Saransar (or Saran Sur) was the retreat of the hillmen known as the
Lakka Khels. On November 9, a reconnaissance in force was made up the
pass. The firing from the heights was deadly and continuous, and, in
the evening, when our troops were retreating down the pass, a small
party of the 48th (Northamptonshire Regiment) under Second Lieutenant
Macintyre and Colour-Sergeant Luck, were cut off and surrounded by the
enemy. It was found impossible to save them, and the following morning
their dead bodies were found together.
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