GRIM DEATH ON THE WHITE HORSE

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 171, 25 September 1886, Page 1

GRIM DEATH ON THE WHITE HORSE

Usten ! I am Grim Death on the White Horee, I vt*9 sent 'with the race of man ; I follow it still in every clime, Ai» 1 have sinoft tbe world, began. In sight of the garden called Paradise, I slew these creatures of pride— And I followed Cain to the Land of Nod, Staying both him and his bride! I ride them down ! I ride them down ! Armies before me have melted away, Since the time of Adam till now; X rode the Philistines down, and thB Jews Escaped not my sword and plough. The Assyrian hoßts i swept from the earth, The Norsemen I soattereduike dust; Tho Vikings I sent to » watery grave, ITor to ride them all down. I must! I ride them down ! I ride them down ! The Roman Patrician— l rode him down ! The old man grey— the fair young bride— Plebeian-like, they made bnt clay. In tpite ot their power ano pride! Barparian horoea I trampled upon— Ijike snowflskes they melted away— Ann the princes rich of the Orient Still tell of my terrible sway ! X ride them down ! I ride them down ! "When Tyrant Nero his Tiolin wild *Mid burning Rome fiendishly played To bis satanic dance my white horse pranced And Blew him in purple arrayed ! The crescent and cross have both felt my long sword, Cosur de Lion and Saladin proud, And to Spaniard and Moor, impartially just. 3 furnished » grave and a shroud I I ride them down I I ride them down ! Bloody Robespierre et al. I need to destroy .Aristocrats proud of their dust— And Russian and Turk. Pasha and the Czar I cut off mid triumph and lust. Napoleon— Wellington— both were my tools, The cholera and plague my w*rm friends, For I was the Captain above them all— And I laughed as I reached my ends ! I ride them down ! I ride them down ! Xiook at their motbep! the cradle above, Her eyes lit up with love's fire 1 She dreams of a future brilliant and grand 3Tor ibe babe cf her heart's desire ! She thinks I am million* ot miles away— I stand at her elbow, unseen— And I'll mow him down, tho' her heart may bleed; Yes, before she has time to wean! I ride them down ! 1 ride them down! Ah! blushing bride with your fair young face, If our dream of raptures to beBut I'll »leep with you on your bridal couch— Not tha bridegroom, ha ! ha ! but me ! Aye— revel, young man, and spend your strength: You. too, think I'm far away— But I'll reaoh your side with dreadful stride ICre'the dawn of another day! 1 ride them down ! I ride them down ! Scheme, statesmen and lawyers, bulldyour fine plans, Sphemeral creatures of clay . Build your Babel towers toward sunlit skies; Your ant-hills I'll soon Bweep away ! Mix hatred and love, laughter and tears, In passion and fully, ye slaves, But grim death commandsfrom his great white horse. ** Sink down ! down ! into your graves !" 1 ride them down ! COBNBXIUS MACBRU>X.