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Show A BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST. Rudyard Kipling in Macmillnn's. Kanial Is out with twenty men to raise the border side, And ho has lifted the colonel's mare that is the colonel's pride. He has lifted herout of the stable door between the dawn and the day, And turned the calkins upon her feet and ridden rid-den her far away. Then up and spoke the colonel's son, that led a troop of the guides: "Is there never a man of all my men can say where Kanial hides!" Then up and spoke Mahommed Khan, the son of the Kessaldar: "If ye know the track of the morning mist ye know where his pickets are. At dusk he harries the Abazai; at dawn he is into Monair: But he must go by Fort Monroe to his own place to fare. So if ye gallop to Fort Monroe as fast as a bird can fly, By the favor of God ye may cut him off ere he win to the Tongue of Jagal. But If he passed the Tongue of Jagal, right swiftly turn ye then, For the length and the breadth of that grisly plain is sown with Kamal's men. |
