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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7390, 17 February 1902, Page 4

WITHERINGTON AT COLENSO. • ■ Mr Bennett Burleigh has related an incident, which was reported to him by the Boers, of a British soldier at the battle of Colenso, who, having both legs broken, besides other wounds, bandaged the disabled limbs with his putties, raised J himself a rough cover of pebbles, and continued firing till he was himself shot through the head. Under the title of 11 Witherington at Oolenso," Mr E. S. ] Tylee contributes a fine poem upon this subject to the Spectator. The following i are some of the stanzas : — All day the ringing hills were loud With leaping bolts of flame, All day from out their smoky shroud The incessant thunder came — , Till when thoße slowly darkening skies Had hushed tbe storm of fight, Shone radiant from her thousand eyes The pity of the night : O day of pride and sorrow ! O heavy, heavy night ! But when the rush of battle swept Back from that fatal plain, A sorely wounded soldier crept From forth a heap of slain ; The shell that burst his mates among Had struck and crippled him, And lax at either knee there bung A torn and useless limb ; From either knee hung useless a crushed and mangled limb. Yet though so fierce a stroke and rude His stalwart form had maimed, He, too, was of the lion's blood, IJnoonquered and untamed. One joy, the greatest and the last, His parting soul would know, And ere upon the night it passed Would Btrike another blow : For duty and for England a final crowning blow. So from what scattered stone were there He built a rugged pile, A rampart and a oouoh to bear His "tortured frame awhile; From his exhausted cartridge belt > The few last charges drew, Nor wounds nor ebbing strength he felt While still his fingers slew : While still with failing fingers his country's foes he slew. And they that towards his stronghold pressed Their flinching glances turned, So awfully above its crest His glaring eyeballs burned : For like the wounded lynx they glowed Guarding her children's bed, And on his ragged tunic showed A broadening stain of red : Upon his war-worn tunio a broad and dreadful red. Till, when before him and behind The foe had girt him round, A sudden bullet swift and kind His blackened forehead found. And with his mighty arms flung wide Athwart that rough stockade, This son of England sank beside| The altar that he made : The altar to her glory that his brave hands had made. O God of Battles, at thy feet What awful wine is poured ! What firstfruits of untimely wheat, The harvest of the sword I Thou makest the eagle and the dove With one almighty breath, And bid'st us at the shrine of Love Within the eonrts of Death : "Not peace, a sword- 1 bring on earth," the Lord of Mercy saith. FOR SALE. DOUBLE BUGGY, owne leaving district. Apply sharp, E. L. 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