SIR ARTHUR YOUNG.-AN HISTORICAL BALLAD.

Tuapeka Times, Volume IV, Issue 221, 25 April 1872, Page 9

SIR ARTHUR YOUNG. -AN HISTORICAL BALLAD.

BA.LLAD. He bends from his horse ; the pledge is tied Hound his avm by his ladye f.iir :—: — " In the field to-day. " .Sir Arthur cried, "They shall know whose Kulge I wear; Ere the sun hni set thou slia'b be dyed In the richest blood that is there. "' A word in her ear, a wave.of the hand, And the glittering train sweeps on'; On braver knight or goodlier band Never morning Minto? shone ; And the ladye fair in left to staud At the castle gaie aloae. The day wears on, the sun grows high, Moves, onward to the west, Through the azure arcli of a summer sky Sinks slowly to his rest. Till stained wilh gold in the silver Wye, And flushed each mountain crest. With a paler face, and a tearful eye, She stands at the gtn.e again, Thirking of tho^e wlio ffjiii; or fly, Of those who lose or gai.>. Of those who conquer and those who die On the far-off battle-pkin. Over thicket and glade her eyeballs strain To the path by which he had gone, Down which in headlong coarse to the plain, A horse comes thundeiiog on ; A coal-black steed, with flowing mane, His horse— but it comes aluue. A riderlsss steed gallops np to the place, And stands with hp;ivin<? side. And .she see*, with her ngjnised, marble face, Bound his foam-flaked neck is tied A delicate tnuv»el of snowy lace, "VViih spots of cihuson dyed. The kerchief from bis bending neck Her icy hands untie"; A blood-stained scroll falls out— and quick She reads with tecrless eye : "My kose. Send back )a ge cobton cheek Per beaier. Yours, A. Y. "