Hongree And Mahry. A Recollection Of A Surrey Melodrama. Poem Rhyme Scheme

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The sun was setting in its wonted west	A
When Hongree Sub Lieutenant of Chassoores	B
Met Mahry Daubigny the Village Rose	B
Under the Wizard's Oak old trysting place	B
Of those who loved in rosy Aquitaine	C
	-
They thought themselves unwatched but they were not	D
For Hongree Sub Lieutenant of Chassoores	B
Found in Lieutenant Colonel Jooles Dubosc	E
A rival envious and unscrupulous	B
Who thought it not foul scorn to dodge his steps	B
And listen unperceived to all that passed	F
Between the simple little Village Rose	B
And Hongree Sub Lieutenant of Chassoores	B
	-
A clumsy barrack bully was Dubosc	E
Quite unfamiliar with the well bred tact	G
That animates a proper gentleman	H
In dealing with a girl of humble rank	E
You'll understand his coarseness when I say	B
He would have married Mahry Daubigny	H
And dragged the unsophisticated girl	I
Into the whirl of fashionable life	J
For which her singularly rustic ways	B
Her breeding moral but extremely rude	K
Her language chaste but ungrammatical	I
Would absolutely have unfitted her	L
How different to this unreflecting boor	M
Was Hongree Sub Lieutenant of Chassoores	B
	-
Contemporary with the incident	N
Related in our opening paragraph	O
Was that sad war 'twixt Gallia and ourselves	B
That followed on the treaty signed at Troyes	B
And so Lieutenant Colonel Jooles Dubosc	E
Brave soldier he with all his faults of style	I
And Hongree Sub Lieutenant of Chassoores	B
Were sent by Charles of France against the lines	B
Of our Sixth Henry Fourteen twenty nine	H
To drive his legions out of Aquitaine	H
	-
When Hongree Sub Lieutenant of Chassoores	B
Returned suspecting nothing to his camp	P
After his meeting with the Village Rose	B
He found inside his barrack letter box	B
A note from the commanding officer	L
Requiring his attendance at head quarters	B
He went and found Lieutenant Colonel Jooles	B
	-
Young Hongree Sub Lieutenant of Chassoores	B
This night we shall attack the English camp	P
Be the 'forlorn hope' yours you'll lead it sir	L
And lead it too with credit I've no doubt	Q
As every man must certainly be killed	R
For you are twenty 'gainst two thousand men	H
It is not likely that you will return	H
But what of that you'll have the benefit	S
Of knowing that you die a soldier's death	T
	-
Obedience was young Hongree'S strongest point	U
But he imagined that he only owed	V
Allegiance to his Mahry and his King	E
If Mahry bade me lead these fated men	H
I'd lead them but I do not think she would	W
If Charles my King said 'Go my son and die '	-
I'd go of course my duty would be clear	X
But Mahry is in bed asleep I hope	Y
And Charles my King a hundred leagues from this	B
As for Lieutenant Colonel Jooles Dubosc	E
How know I that our monarch would approve	Z
The order he has given me to night	A2
My King I've sworn in all things to obey	B
I'll only take my orders from my King	E
Thus Hongree Sub Lieutenant of Chassoores	B
Interpreted the terms of his commission	H
	-
And Hongree who was wise as he was good	W
Disguised himself that night in ample cloak	E
Round flapping hat and vizor mask of black	E
And made unnoticed for the English camp	P
He passed the unsuspecting sentinels	B
Who little thought a man in this disguise	B
Could be a proper object of suspicion	H
And ere the curfew bell had boomed lights out	Q
He found in audience Bedford's haughty Duke	E
	-
Your Grace he said start not be not alarmed	B2
Although a Frenchman stands before your eyes	B
I'm HOngree Sub Lieutenant of Chassoores	B
My Colonel will attack your camp to night	A2
And orders me to lead the hope forlorn	H
Now I am sure our excellent King Charles	B
Would not approve of this but he's away	B
A hundred leagues and rather more than that	C2
So utterly devoted to my King	E
Blinded by my attachment to the throne	H
And having but its interest at heart	D2
I feel it is my duty to disclose	B
All schemes that emanate from Colonel Jooles	B
If I believe that they are not the kind	E2
Of schemes that our good monarch would approve	Z
	-
But how said Bedford's Duke do you propose	B
That we should overthrow your Colonel's scheme	F2
And Hongree Sub Lieutenant of Chassoores	B
Replied at once with never failing tact	G
Oh sir I know this cursed country well	I
Entrust yourself and all your host to me	G2
I'll lead you safely by a secret path	H2
Into the heart of Colonel Jooles' array	B
And you can then attack them unprepared	I2
And slay my fellow countrymen unarmed	B2
	-
The thing was done The Duke of Bedford gave	J2
The order and two thousand fighting men	H
Crept silently into the Gallic camp	P
And slew the Frenchmen as they lay asleep	K2
And Bedford's haughty Duke slew Colonel Jooles	B
And gave fair Mahry pride of Aquitaine	H
To Hongree Sub Lieutenant of Chassoores	B

William Schwenck Gilbert

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