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Riding at dawn riding alone	A
Gillespie left the town behind	B
Before he turned by the Westward road	C
A horseman crossed him staggering blind	B
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The Devil's abroad in false Vellore	D
The Devil that stabs by night he said	E
Women and children rank and file	F
Dying and dead dying and dead	E
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Without a word without a groan	A
Sudden and swift Gillespie turned	G
The blood roared in his ears like fire	D
Like fire the road beneath him burned	G
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He thundered back to Arcot gate	H
He thundered up through Arcot town	I
Before he thought a second thought	J
In the barrack yard he lighted down	I
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Trumpeter sound for the Light Dragoons	K
Sound to saddle and spur he said	E
He that is ready may ride with me	L
And he that can may ride ahead	E
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Fierce and fain fierce and fain	M
Behind him went the troopers grim	N
They rode as ride the Light Dragoons	K
But never a man could ride with him	N
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Their rowels ripped their horses' sides	K
Their hearts were red with a deeper goad	C
But ever alone before them all	O
Gillespie rode Gillespie rode	C
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Alone he came to false Vellore	D
The walls were lined the gates were barred	P
Alone he walked where the bullets bit	Q
And called above to the Sergeant's Guard	P
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Sergeant Sergeant over the gate	H
Where are your officers all he said	E
Heavily came the Sergeant's voice	K
There are two living and forty dead	E
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A rope a rope Gillespie cried	R
They bound their belts to serve his need	S
There was not a rebel behind the wall	O
But laid his barrel and drew his bead	S
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There was not a rebel among them all	O
But pulled his trigger and cursed his aim	T
For lightly swung and rightly swung	U
Over the gate Gillespie came	T
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He dressed the line he led the charge	V
They swept the wall like a stream in spate	H
And roaring over the roar they heard	W
The galloper guns that burst the gate	H
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Fierce and fain fierce and fain	M
The troopers rode the reeking flight	X
The very stones remember still	Y
The end of them that stab by night	X
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They've kept the tale a hundred years	K
They'll keep the tale a hundred more	D
Riding at dawn riding alone	A
Gillespie came to false Vellore	D

Henry Newbolt

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