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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519270" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Guides At Cabul</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sons of the Island race, wherever ye dwell,<br>Who speak of your fathers' battles with lips that burn,<br>The deed of an alien legion hear me tell,<br>And think not shame from the hearts ye tamed to learn,<br>When succour shall fail and the tide for a season turn,<br>To fight with joyful courage, a passionate pride,<br>To die at last as the Guides of Cabul died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a handful of seventy men in a barrack of mud,<br>Foodless, waterless, dwindling one by one,<br>Answered a thousand yelling for English blood<br>With stormy volleys that swept them gunner from gun,<br>And charge on charge in the glare of the Afghan sun,<br>Till the walls were shattered wherein they couched at bay,<br>And dead or dying half of the seventy lay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twice they had taken the cannon that wrecked their hold,<br>Twice toiled in vain to drag it back,<br>Thrice they toiled, and alone, wary and bold,<br>Whirling a hurricane sword to scatter the rack,<br>Hamilton, last of the English, covered their track.<br>'Never give in!' he cried, and he heard them shout,<br>And grappled with death as a man that knows not doubt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the Guides looked down from their smouldering barrack again,<br>And behold, a banner of truce, and a voice that spoke:<br>'Come, for we know that the English all are slain,<br>We keep no feud with men of a kindred folk;<br>Rejoice with us to be free of the conqueror's yolk.'<br>Silence fell for a moment, then was heard<br>A sound of laughter and scorn, and an answering word.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Is it we or the lords we serve who have earned this wrong,<br>That ye call us to flinch from the battle they bade us fight?<br>We that live--do ye doubt that our hands are strong?<br>They that are fallen--ye know that their blood was bright!<br>Think ye the Guides will barter for lust of the light<br>The pride of an ancient people in warfare bred,<br>Honour of comrades living, and faith to the dead?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the joy that spurs the warrior's heart<br>To the last thundering gallop and sheer leap<br>Came on the men of the Guides: they flung apart<br>The doors not all their valour could longer keep;<br>They dressed their slender line; they breathed deep,<br>And with never a foot lagging or head bent<br>To the clash and clamour and dust of death they went.</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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Who speak of your fathers' battles with lips that burn,
The deed of an alien legion hear me tell,
And think not shame from the hearts ye tamed to learn,
When succour shall fail and the tide for a season ..."></div>
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