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Allahabad amidst Avenging Column Baptist battle battle-field beautiful Behold beneath Bengal army blood Brahmins brave BROAD STONE Calcutta cannon Captain Cawnpore character Christ Christian soldier command commission concealed contest courage crown of righteousness cruel dare dead death devil disband the 66th divine dreadful Duke of Wellington eminent England exclaimed faith fear fight finished my course fought GALVANIZED RAMROD gleam glory Goorkas grandeur heart heaven hero hero's heart heroism HOLY homage host human illus illustrious immortal India infernal JOHN SNOW KEEPING THE FAITH knight laid Lord Lucknow ment mighty murdered mutiny NAMELESS Nana Sahib never obedience PATERNOSTER ROW peace praise prayer regiment rest revolt saved Sepoys shield siege SIR CHARLES NAPIER Sir Robert Sale soul spirit STONE OF HONOUR strength suspicious old world sword thee thou Tribute true unto VALIANT valour warfare Wellington whole wild WORDSWORTH'S HAPPY WARRIOR
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Стр. 2 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired PREFACE ix With sudden brightness, like a man inspired...
Стр. 18 - There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a pilgrim. Who so beset him round With dismal stories, Do but themselves confound, — His strength the more is ; No lion can him fright, He'll with a giant fight ; But he will have a right To be a pilgrim.
Стр. 14 - Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; Threescore valiant men are about it, Of the valiant of Israel. They all hold swords, being expert in war: Every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
Стр. 1 - CHARACTER OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR WHO is the happy Warrior ? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be ? — It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among -the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought...
Стр. 15 - Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air, Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army while All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Стр. 2 - Finds comfort in himself and in his cause ; And, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause : This is the happy warrior ; this is he That every man in arms should wish to be.
Стр. 15 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred...
Стр. 2 - Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train ! Turns his necessity to glorious gain...
Стр. 2 - Tis, finally, the Man, who, lifted high, Conspicuous object in a Nation's eye, Or left unthought-of in obscurity, Who, with a toward or untoward lot, Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not, Plays, in the many games of life, that one Where what he most doth value must be won...