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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519235" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gillespie.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Riding at dawn, riding alone,<br>Gillespie left the town behind;<br>Before he turned by the Westward road<br>A horseman crossed him, staggering blind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The Devil's abroad in false Vellore,<br>The Devil that stabs by night,' he said,<br>'Women and children, rank and file,<br>Dying and dead, dying and dead.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Without a word, without a groan,<br>Sudden and swift Gillespie turned,<br>The blood roared in his ears like fire,<br>Like fire the road beneath him burned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He thundered back to Arcot gate,<br>He thundered up through Arcot town,<br>Before he thought a second thought<br>In the barrack yard he lighted down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Trumpeter, sound for the Light Dragoons,<br>Sound to saddle and spur,' he said;<br>'He that is ready may ride with me,<br>And he that can may ride ahead.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fierce and fain, fierce and fain,<br>Behind him went the troopers grim,<br>They rode as ride the Light Dragoons<br>But never a man could ride with him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their rowels ripped their horses' sides,<br>Their hearts were red with a deeper goad,<br>But ever alone before them all<br>Gillespie rode, Gillespie rode.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Alone he came to false Vellore,<br>The walls were lined, the gates were barred;<br>Alone he walked where the bullets bit,<br>And called above to the Sergeant's Guard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Sergeant, Sergeant, over the gate,<br>Where are your officers all?' he said;<br>Heavily came the Sergeant's voice,<br>'There are two living and forty dead.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'A rope, a rope,' Gillespie cried :<br>They bound their belts to serve his need.<br>There was not a rebel behind the wall<br>But laid his barrel and drew his bead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was not a rebel among them all<br>But pulled his trigger and cursed his aim,<br>For lightly swung and rightly swung<br>Over the gate Gillespie came.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He dressed the line, he led the charge,<br>They swept the wall like a stream in spate,<br>And roaring over the roar they heard<br>The galloper guns that burst the gate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fierce and fain, fierce and fain,<br>The troopers rode the reeking flight:<br>The very stones remember still<br>The end of them that stab by night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They've kept the tale a hundred years,<br>They'll keep the tale a hundred more:<br>Riding at dawn, riding alone,<br>Gillespie came to false Vellore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sir+Henry+Newbolt">Sir Henry Newbolt</a><div class=q>
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Gillespie left the town behind;
Before he turned by the Westward road
A horseman crossed him, staggering blind.

'The Devil's abroad in false Vellore,
The Devil that stabs by night,' he said,
'Women and children, rank..."></div>
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