MODERN KNIGHTS.
The ol&romantic days are gone WhonVallant youths held vijyil lone, And watched their aims by moonlight wan, Kneeling in prayer on cold church stone ; When, afteikni?hthood duly given, In holy fane, with eacred rite, They made their solemn vow to heaven For God, anA all oppressed, to light. Yes! they are R«ne. But say not thou That knightly spirit, too, is lied ; Though not a helwet crowns the brow Nor chivalry not truth is dead, No sword runs rod tor beauty's wrongs, Or slave, oppressed by cruel lord, But. ye' tho.lame of. taught belongs To many a name byono accord. Let. Arnold's life and Gordon's death Tho cynic'? sneering v.vjnls deny ; Oiie (buijht for truth till dying; breath, And one for liouour's sako could die. Lpl Kinsley's lite of chivalry Witness it lives in Britons let! And lie, with Arthur's courtesy, Albert tho Good, can wo forgot ? While chivalry and truth remain, And honour flowevs in English air, Wny call romantic days a;;ain, Siiice true romance is ever therft!
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 100, 28 April 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)
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171MODERN KNIGHTS. Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 100, 28 April 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)
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