[Chievely, Friday, December 15th.
Lieutenant Roberts, con of Lord Ryberts, was shot about 8..0 am. We saw him fall from his horse. The noble brute never shifted from his master's side, though the Boers played their pom-pom on him on several occasions. An officer of the Staff afterwards managed to get the horse away." From the Diary of Corporal William Hunter, {ud Batt Royal Scots Fusillers; published in the "Scotsman" for Wednesday, September 12th, 1200.]
"Post belloter equus, positis insignibus, Acthon, 7 It lacrimans, guttisque humectat grandibus ora."
There, where he dropped, riding to save the gun, He lay, a faint, still, hardly-breathing corse, A hero, the great hero's only son 3 Beside him stood his horse Who would not leave his master, though to leave AIL hearts were fain, and all who left not fell, For still the eager foe gove no reprieve From bullet and from shell, "We saw him stand," they tell, "the noble brute, Silently loyal to the sunken head.
Ah, how more eloquent that service mute Than aught that tongue had said Yet haply had some all-compelling Power Given sudden speech, as in the world's firs morn, What witness in that agonising hour Had the dumb ature borne "Men live and struggle for a hundred ple:
For God, for country, for ambitions high We blindly share man's labour and his conse, And when he bids, we die.
"Yet often is our life as truly given, ven as gladly for a worthy cause, As his, and though we cannot real Heaven The purport of earth's "We love the highest in our humbler ken, We worship and obey the best we kno As gods and devils, unto brutes are men, Angels of joy and woe "And he that has the skill to be our our heart, we have no loftier name, Unquestioning we serve him to the end, To flinch were ache and shame."
So when of old the Trojan chivalry Followed their boy-height's bier in sad array, Tis steed, the hig drops in his wistful eye, Went, morning even as they.
Kina to thy beasts, firmewilled, but gentle chief, Scant room and time for tender thoughts are thine, Yet that his charger shared thy love and grief, Be this (oe anodyne —Taera, in the " Sp2ctator,'
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Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.