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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539699" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Hero of Rorke's Drift</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twas at the camp of Rorke's Drift, and at tea-time,<br>And busily engaged in culinary operations was a private of the line;<br>But suddenly he paused, for he heard a clattering din,<br>When instantly two men on horseback drew rein beside him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;News from the front!&quot; said one, &quot;Awful news!&quot; said the other,<br>&quot;Of which, we are afraid, will put us to great bother,<br>For the black Zulus are coming, and for our blood doth thirst,&quot;<br>&quot;And the force is cut up to pieces!&quot; shouted the first. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;We're dead beat,&quot; said both, &quot;but we've got to go on,&quot;<br>And on they rode both, looking very woebegone;<br>Then Henry Hook put all thought of cooking out of his mind,<br>For he was surrounded with danger on every side he did find. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was a private of the South Wales Borderers, Henry Hook,<br>Also a brave soldier, and an hospital cook;<br>A soldier of the Queen, who was always ready to obey,<br>And willing to serve God by night and day. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then away to the Camp he ran, with his mind all in a shiver,<br>Shouting, &quot;The force is cut up, sir, on the other side of the river!&quot;<br>Which caused the officer in command with fear to quiver,<br>When Henry Hook the news to him did deliver. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Henry Hook saluted, and immediately retired,<br>And with courage undaunted his soul was fired,<br>And the cry rang out wildly, &quot;The Zulus are coming!&quot;<br>Then the alarm drums were instantly set a-drumming. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then &quot;Fall in! Fall in!&quot; the commanders did cry,<br>And the men mustered out, ready to do and to die,<br>As British soldiers are always ready to do,<br>But, alas, on this occasion their numbers were but few. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were only eighty in number, that brave British band,<br>And brave Lieutenant Broomhead did them command;<br>He gave orders to erect barricades without delay,<br>&quot;It's the only plan I can see, men, to drive four thousand savages away.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then the mealie bags and biscuit boxes were brought out,<br>And the breastwork was made quickly without fear or doubt,<br>And barely was it finished when some one cried in dismay,<br>&quot;There's the Zulus coming just about twelve hundred yards away.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Methinks I see the noble hero, Henry Hook,<br>Because like a destroying angel he did look,<br>As he stood at the hospital entrance defending the patients there,<br>Bayoneting the Zulus, while their cries rent the air,<br>As they strove hard the hospital to enter in,<br>But he murdered them in scores, and thought it no sin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In one of the hospital rooms was stationed Henry Hook,<br>And every inch a hero he did look,<br>Standing at his loophole he watched the Zulus come,<br>All shouting, and yelling, and at a quick run. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">On they came, a countless host of savages with a rush,<br>But the gallant little band soon did their courage crush,<br>But the cool man Henry Hook at his post began to fire,<br>And in a short time those maddened brutes were forced to retire. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still on came the savages into the barricade,<br>And still they were driven back, but undismayed.<br>Again they came into the barricade, yet they were driven back,<br>While darkness fell swift across the sun, dismal and black. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then into the hospital the savages forced their way,<br>And in a moment they set fire to it without dismay,<br>Then Henry Hook flew&quot; to assist the patients in the ward,<br>And the fighting there was fearful and hard. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">With yell and shriek the Zulus rushed to the attack,<br>But for the sixth time they were driven back<br>By the brave British band, and Henry Hook,<br>Who was a brave soldier, surgeon, and hospital cook. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when Lord Chelmsford heard of the victory that day,<br>He sent for Henry Hook without delay,<br>And they took the private before the commander,<br>And with his braces down, and without his coat, in battle array grandeur. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Lord Chelmsford said, &quot;Henry Hook, give me your hand,<br>For your conduct to day has been hereoic and grand,<br>And without your assistance to-day we'd been at a loss,<br>And for your heroic behaviour you shall receive the Victoria Cross.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a><div class=q>
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