GILLESPIE.
[By Hejtht Nkw»ld.] (Author of "Admirait A 1L W1
**"f * a<*», GiUeyie left the town behind; . Before he turned by the Westward road A horwoun crocud him, staggering ft| v The Peril's abroad in false Vellum. *§ The Devil that stabs l^gJSft "Women and children, rank aWtW ; Dying and dead, dying and dead," • Without a word, without a groan 1 Sudden and swift Gillespu turned t> The blood roared in hi. earTtikft flmj Like fire the road beoeath him b**i Be thundered back to Arcot gate! " $ He thundered up tbiojgkAroDt taw Before he thought a Mfaftwoqghi''; In the barrack fMA%^mSt»FSim^ " Trumpeter, aound for the UAt MkJ Sound to saddle and aßOr^naaaaifl And he that can ma/ rid* nhMat,**.7T Keroe and fain, fierce and inta 'si Behind him went the troajari —t-Jm They tede aa ride the UgntDnaMal^ But never a man oould rid* witfa Ufi Their roweb ripped their hotae^f kAal Their heart* were red with a dtaaml But erer aluae before them all ■ tM Oilkepie rode, GUlwpie rod*. # j3 he came to fal«e Vellore, ' >'| The walk were lined, the asaaml barred; T *T*sn Alone he walked where the buUeti&bit^ ±ud osUed above to the b*rg«»nt ,j|i "Sergeant, Sergeant, over the nit*. Jl fWhere are your officer* a|l ?" he«aH ■*"££* c*oße the Sw«»«t'« *oip« i^l " There an two living and forty^M "A rope, a rope," OiUeapie or»d:^M They uoaad Mieu beUa to ww natjl Then was not a rebel behud^l* —aaSM B«t laid hi* barrel and drew ta |jfH There wiwaot a rebel anons them aeH3 But polled his trigger aiMoHraw4«al He dressed the line, he led the «aara»i They swept the wall like a ttiwM And roaring over the rear they twanfcl The galloper gnnaU>at burst Ae^i Fierce and fain, ieres aaliaUa. JBS The troopers rede the reskdnsaSHl The very stones remember Mill The end of them that stab by afeft£^. They're kept the tale a hondrod yearaj They'll keep the tale % hnadrsef atejfi Biding at dawn, riding alone, .. ' M Gillespie oane to feJte YeUdM. -M [The.above lines, which w*M'Malfl in the New Zealand TimecerSai June, refer to General Sir Bflaaa^S GiUespie, X.C B:, Gokoel of thTISS Dragoon*, a relative of Mr H. a CUlil Parawsi, who was killed in r-^fa7^!
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Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9110, 2 July 1898, Page 1
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371GILLESPIE. Thames Star, Volume XXX, Issue 9110, 2 July 1898, Page 1
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