A PRISONER OF WAR.

Western Star, Issue 407, 5 January 1881, Page 3

A PRISONER OF WAR.

fit Macron Maclaxkb, E.A., Mttbssbso at - W | ,v: Candahab, a.d. 1880. -...0J ( ■ Wtbpr Strang® it may sound in material days.,,, sti! lw utM theme, aadit# issue is glory,— ©ld troubadours jingled such lays. lib*; nemo of my hero ? Writ . ptais, '■*’ ' , , rssrs'f' and Bcotehtcms, "it’s Hector ifettepwoßdsiii’ell io a Btory of battle, f> * p3b*s«r bad khse #aeh old hero in Troy, llfbeolboyi.t&fty d#uit s but the roar and the , rattle, , ' ' ■ ’ Cstinoti and smoke—that’* the school of the astobuy;. ■ ■ '■> ( ■ , - ''/'•A it? ’'l ' ' WoeHricliCadet! oh! toeriieHyslain? did they leave |«s, young Hector 5 weave you, my lid? When your "paU’VaH adored you, • / V 1 "there one comrade refused you his life P .* Ifou who rejoiiisod in the drum and the fife. it.Ed Onfe is ;he- loe#i but to fatoe is the vijto 1 • ' - ■*’ : , 3 , J.. Jbey kill you.young Heftor I Hilled yeftk-'iirieonerl' -I«ft there]'add lonely, 4 j in bo|i>e for f fcbefgwp of our: hand, '1 waning yoiir ear* for our cheering, and only giving to leap at the lilt of your band I J : i ;; Cniraed be the murderers 1 Children of Cain, , • ; ‘ . / j betrayed yon, oUr Hector Madams. J 'j -if.';' 7 Aim, our hearts beat when we thought we i ' eoiild save yon •, Wo Were an ohiuery, and you, boy, so far. j Unfurl the colours 1 We thought they could wave yds Hope from the lads to the Par Candahhr ! ] Strike up the pipes! lor we’ll at him . again; r ' SoMtie k marching to Hector Mac- ‘ Wee. ■

f»le! When tfc* Higblsaders " ttortocU • '■ ■ ; . . I in their purpose to mms» a friend, •T© irtTOHbAhe tin bush tho snemy darted, *| '®|lkd the ten roll, stabbed,—and that was - ~ 1 .Tn»<i as w* brealtsd th® hiU from th# plain, .. i v l«ed, like a soldier, young Hector . MaeWnn. •' ■ 4>iedf Why, of eoarsa, he mat deathlike a - ;i ihwo,- f. ' , . ,; : Baring hie breast whilst the prisoner* fled. 53# was the vietia, his gaoler the Nero, Filing body on heaps of the dead. Still, ere ydih foil, and were mixed with j .■- ■* th# slain, • geetknd was'true to yon—Hecxob ■*“: '"'l -J^g^Bch. ,ll '