Show The Sergeant ergeant S s Story i The 10 air I I rat was wa as de ilea l i t f 4 That afternoon wo we lost lot the thc trail Whore Where l skeletons were were w e laid t tIn In drifted dri d graves rIes that no man nude made But wild winds were WIC the sextons And from his Iris brazen throne c The fierce sun sum sowed owl the Ilie smoking g sands fiu blinds ds 1 With firs fire wide poured front from unseen hands Y I I A vast hot oven oen seemed to be he beFar 1 Far Fill as sour our parboiled eyes ce could sec SC scOt i iN Nor N Ot r shadow of n a cloud doud was Wits there thus thereN t toi N oi i funned fanned the s air an anNor c Nor anything of flesh and bone hOlle i Save Sa C us IS and ours outs But Bill where the gray gl y Hot scoria in dead furrows lay layA A lit 1 lithe it lie he fugacious lizard liard prone j Pared Fared in the incandescent dust His mail that erstwhile dazzling shone Was turned to the dull hue line of rust rustA A 11 sea of restless sand sands v s Whose hounds bounds our OI eyes c es had 1 vainly l sought sou soli ht htA v i A waveless sea sen of blighted land That Thai God Gad Himself hud had long 1 ng f fI I I Apparent on our wondering view J JA J JA j A mirage e o of the desert grew V Vi i And Anti where the s hot rim shut down Through dancing airwaves l lh broWn broil ln There shoreward tossed a limpid pid tea Ma but and free And stretching down clown along the thc main 1 r Were spectral cities e tits of the lie plain And Aud Ai lofty spires and mos mosques tics fud l Looked down dOWl on an tare rare arcadian n bowers bower And neer old Bablon Bah lon the thc fair fn ft tr l Hung stranger gardens b in in the nit air Hopeless beyond h ond our om feeble reach J The sobbing blue waves lapped the th beach j Faint on the ear car J heard heardA A pulsing stream the song of bird hird Saw billowing grasses bending low Swept by shadows that change and id grow crow gr w That lint change and grow bros at tit last to find Some wayward figment of the mind To lure us disappointed where Hope dies a victim to despair j i With lessening strength st we 1 cried cl aloud And from fromn fr the th deserts incubus Like ghostly costly from a ti shroud r Came our own voices back to us cis s sI sto I tt to Our horses horse spent and an 1 mad with thirst t f Saw as we wo saw the Ihl shimmering himmer tide V An A n ocean flowing strong and wide hide i Neighed like a human lumen r i i A heu hearts are arc stung and aud an helpless ss fail i Sank ank one by oue one and languorous j I The Thc most to lose and aud yet the thc fut first W 1 So fo waxed the days das ell s anti and 1 tr rr t tAnd ti Fell PcB aminous and lowering J And closed dosed a lifes life most roost bitter day For im neer nc er creeps twilights t wil Oer o el the dry eln floor of that dead sea seu Paved with ten thousand years of clay olay Dui But sudden as a blown out light Ii ht Falls the still curtain of the night f fAnd And when l the stars break into vie view t tiey 1 v i iT i T T they seem seers to scorch h the darkness through l And nn nd clinging to the broiling 1 ng flesh The vestments sting the nerves afresh With igneous venom I hat the th fir air r t r Sifts without everywhere I Ir mercy merc I Ini 91 0 night ni ht of 0 r hunger bun er thirst and POI pain niu Will VIII morning never come again 1 v t Alas las the day presages dread oi o oi J JI i i In this thiM Golgotha of the dead We Ure 1 y c scoop coop the thc dust with strenuous hand And waning strength but sedulous To know knot each grain of shifting sn d dIs Is but hut a stone of Sisyphus f fIn In hours home of toil Ute the shallow howl bowl Holds less nepenthe n for the heart Than Tha II keeps he ps together t flesh and a d soul Haul Or 01 life and death an hour hoir apart r Wherever bent hent the vagrant way In hr ON en C cry l hour or night or day da I r rIL X Jf If hope wore w kind o or fate denied Our paek of nil all their line the pride Unasked they the gave sagacious Ra love lovo True as a 1 pledge plc of heaven above These dumb companions ns of our Out stress Crawled al fit our feet et with caress And nerveless in the lie deserts desert s breath Drank thence the lethal draught of death j jAll All died save m one whose royal breed Once coursed the Uw moores moore of ancient Tweed And guarded boarded 1 flocks s on plains These lived Jived again ag l n in his strong stron veins For days he lic led the thC famished pack I Oer wilds unmarred by human track His will the hell It ll of thirst His tireless feet feel the wastes wa tes devoured Reason Henson or instinct both hoth seemed there thereAs thereAs I As Ar nosing the ail air fV 1 When hen stars in the night He Hc shuffled whimpering from our sight Ghostlike our last l friend went away awayA i A shadow through h dawns misty gray gra And straight the phantom course was waR laid Towards a l timeworn grade A shard of rib from Mother Earth Long sprung before the birth i Where over oyer the thc eroded ledge Were there mats of woven women brake and sedge se ge And from the hither shoulders scarp Of crumpled rock rook of angles tingles sharp Poured wimpling forth fresh as tho the dawn dawnA 1 A 11 spring and pure as ag Helicon I oJ l t But purblind eyes no longer sought What oft oCt had disappointment brought r i T r And no man cared in ill in his distress What lay beyond a league or less lessI For II I or hope had passed nor left behind A 11 ray ra to light the glimmering mind We Ve only on I saw the tho growing gray gra Of morn and dreamed of or those tho e sweet things r That memory m to the th dying h ng brings I The trysts of youth the spangled hills lulls I Of or violets rind Hud daffodils The rhe school s hool boy ho loitering by hy the way wa The oft told tale talc the lover r weaves In Tn birchen groves gros oL or whispering leaves And all the happiness of yore That once liras was us ours but hut ours no more But Bill when ilien ablaze the tho risen sun Ull Tract Had scarce his trended dreaded work begun The Tho collies collie s tiger eager eug bay har was heard And Ancl our dead veins reins to fo life were stirred Aud A nel faint was waft the tile troopers cheers The rhe shootings of if th the muleteers And Jn valorous Carlo led ld the vanAs van vau vanAs As once onoe before he ho led the pack paek Oer O er wastes unmarred by h human track i To 10 where we eked cled lifes little span r Full well they rode Iode That morn free spurred With loosened rein rent our saviours came As once onee the bugles call c they heard hemd And rode through gory gor fields to fame These who had h d 1 mourned our hapless fate Worn Torn victims vi tims of the fhe he deserts hate hatel 3 l good c t Nor Rhone lC bred hied vine inc 4 J Ji l i J Eser Fier E er shed its blood lend so rich as as thine n ni r 1 t tA i A draught 0 O God and ind such mch a draught ri riI I For Jor verj wr cry jo joy we wept went and laughed I We Wo shook oar clenched hands at the sky Our only shroud if we should hould C lie die And life came hack back a n feeble spark l But II a 1 great grent light ight when all an was dark durk J Jt t Where up rap vo voTo yon Ol n hill hm tho tiro th brown IrOwn path creeps To listen to tho hI murmuring stream There Carlo faithful fn Carlo sleeps A to dream A sleep t profound perchance There first the mornings purpling rays I Guilds his rude mound 1 with radiant light There last the lingering glory gIor stays To hid bid the thi fading world world Good Night Where he Las has gonG gone the gathered host That fills fill the dumb brutes hrut g Hall HaJJ of Fame I Will gill W ll find finci his own they thc loved the thc most Beside Abou Ben Adams name A S CONDON CONDOM |