Camp Follower's Song, Gomal River Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEFG AHDH IJKJ KLKL ACAC KMAM KNKN OPBP DABC KHDH| We have left Gul Kach behind us | A |
| Are marching on Apozai | A |
| Where pleasure and rest are waiting | B |
| To welcome us by and by | C |
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| We're falling back from the Gomal | D |
| Across the Gir dao plain | E |
| The camping ground is deserted | F |
| We'll never come back again | G |
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| Along the rocks and the defiles | A |
| The mules and the camels wind | H |
| Good bye to Rahimut Ullah | D |
| The man who is left behind | H |
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| For some we lost in the skirmish | I |
| And some were killed in the fight | J |
| But he was captured by fever | K |
| In the sentry pit at night | J |
| - | |
| A rifle shot had been swifter | K |
| Less trouble a sabre thrust | L |
| But his Fate decided fever | K |
| And each man dies as he must | L |
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| Behind us red in the distance | A |
| The wavering flames rise high | C |
| The flames of our burning grass huts | A |
| Against the black of the sky | C |
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| We hear the sound of the river | K |
| An ever lessening moan | M |
| The hearts of us all turn backwards | A |
| To where he is left alone | M |
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| We sing up a little louder | K |
| We know that we feel bereft | N |
| We're leaving the camp together | K |
| And only one of us left | N |
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| The only one out of many | O |
| And each must come to his end | P |
| I wish I could stop this singing | B |
| He happened to be my friend | P |
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| We're falling back from the Gomal | D |
| We're marching on Apozai | A |
| And pleasure and rest are waiting | B |
| To welcome us by and by | C |
| - | |
| Perhaps the feast will taste bitter | K |
| The lips of the girls less kind | H |
| Because of Rahimut Ullah | D |
| The man who is left behind | H |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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