THE ENEMY.
(From the Daily News.) Unschooled in Letters and in Arts unhorsed ; Ignorant of Empire; bounded in their view By the lone billowing veldt where they up grew Amid great silences ; a people nursed Apart, the far-sown seed of them that .erst Not Alva’s sword could tame; now blindly hurled , ; : Against the march of the majestic world, They fight and die, with dauntless ■ bosoms curst, * Crazed, if you will; demented, not to > yield i Ere all is reft! Yet, mad though these ) may be, - They have striven as noblest Englishmen did use : ' : • - To strive for freedom ; and no Briton he, i ‘Who to such valor in a desperate field i. A, knightly salutation can refuse. 1 ; r > Wn.MAS WAISON.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 114, 23 May 1901, Page 3
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120THE ENEMY. Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 114, 23 May 1901, Page 3
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