Last Words Of Sir Henry Lawrence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDAA EEFFGGAA HHIIJJAA KKLLMMAA GGNNOOAA| Let there be no fuss about me bury me with my men | A |
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| The shades of death were gathering thick around a soldier's head | B |
| A war stained dust strewn band of men gathered around his bed | B |
| Comrade good bye thank God your voice may cheer the dauntless brave | C |
| When I your friend and countryman am resting in the grave | C |
| Hush soldiers hush no word of thanks it is little I have done | D |
| For the glory of the land we love toward the setting sun | D |
| I have but one request to make When all is over then | A |
| Let there be no fuss about me bury me with my men | A |
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| Heap up no splendid monument in memory of my clay | E |
| No tributary words to tell of one who's far away | E |
| It matters not to passers by where lies my crumbling dust | F |
| The cherubim and seraphim may have it in their trust | F |
| And bones of better men than I have bleached all cold and white | G |
| Where scorching sunbeam goes by day and the prowling beast by night | G |
| Give me a few spare feet of earth away down in the glen | A |
| Breathing the words of faith and hope bury me with the men | A |
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| Bury me with the men when the fearful seige was gained | H |
| With British blood and British dead the Indian soil was stained | H |
| Poor Dugald lay that fearful night and never asked for aid | I |
| And Fraser wounded cheered us on and Allan dying prayed | I |
| And brave Macdonald cheered the flag with his expiring breath | J |
| These are the men who jeopardised their lives unto the death | J |
| They drove the murderous Sepoys back the wild wolf to his den | A |
| All honor to their noble hearts bury me with my men | A |
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| Is it death that's coming nearer how clammy grows my brow | K |
| Yes I'm going home for promotion the battle's over now | K |
| Comrades I often fancy how upon yon blessed shore | L |
| In that land of recognition we may yet all meet once more | L |
| Colonel we'll gather round you then as in the days of old | M |
| Why do whisper comrades are my fingers growing cold | M |
| Oh tell my brother officers that I thought about them when | A |
| I was going across the river bury me with my men | A |
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| How very dark it's growing I suppose it's nearly night | G |
| Well I think we shall see England in the morning's ruddy light | G |
| And my mother and my sister surely I see them stand | N |
| Upon the beach and summer flowers waving in each hand | N |
| And sounds of joy and victory comes on the evening air | O |
| Colonel if I go down home first you'll come and see us there | O |
| Do I hear my comrades sighing Where am I ah amen | A |
| Let there be no fuss about me bury me with my men | A |
Harriet Annie Wilkins
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