OPPORTUNITY.
’This I beheld or dreamed it in a dream: There spread a cloud of dust along a plain. And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and.men yelled, and swords Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince s banner _ . , Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle s edge And thought, “Had I a sword of keener steel — That blue blade that the king’s sou bears—but this Blunt thing !”—he snapped and flung it from his hand And lowering crept away and left the field. Then came the king’s son—wounded, sore bestead And weaponless —and saw the broken sword, Hilt buried in the dry and trodden sand, And ran and snatched it, and with battle shout Xifted afresh he hewed the enemy down And saved a great cause that heroic day. Selected.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 40, 30 December 1893, Page 3
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141OPPORTUNITY. Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 40, 30 December 1893, Page 3
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