THE XVIIth OF JUNE (WATERLOO) MDCCCXV.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8841, 18 June 1907, Page 2

THE XVIIth OF JUNE (WATERLOO) MDCCCXV.

Still rings adown these two and ninety years The awful conflict of heroic men In tin t stupendous battle, which appears The height of human valour, now, as then: I hear the thunders of the Union Horse Crushing battalions in their headlong way; I see the foemau’s mailed and massive force Charging and charging, like each wave that rears Its dowering crest and breaks upon the bay, Boat back from those their squares in bloody spray; Four hundred cannon roaring in mine ears, That plough the ground up all the live-long day; At last the unvanciuished guard charged up the field, Aud, smitten front and flank, they backward reeled; Aud a cry wont through the host at eventide, “All’s lost!” and sank each heart in blank dismay, And a whole army charged, as sot the sun, Amidst that awful wreckage far aud wide, And Freedom’s fiercest fight was fought and won. —A.Y T.