Alma Mater and Other Poems Author:William Richardson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Unharmed they found the living both Naked and stripped, without a cloth. They burned their camp, then marched again Back to Fort Hall, far o'er the plain ; W... more »hich, to this day, still there remains A monument of white men's pains. CTTBOUEL, Abouel, disconsolate one ! f. Great Allah decrees thy work is not done ; Though bound, as a slave, in the hands of the foe, Lamenting thy fate, bewailing thy woe : The stars you behold in the deep vaulted sky, As on the dewed earth all sleepless you lie, With thoughts heavy laden, and sad and forlorn, Are beacons of hope to weary and worn. The war-steed is neighing, he sniffs the still air, Thy faithful companion, through foul and through fair, It falls on thine ear, in thy anguish and pain, As its echo sounds o'er the desolate plain. Arouse then, arouse then, it whispers to thee : Gnaw through the hair-thongs, and let him be free : He scents you are coming, he prances again, And waves to and fro his glossy black mane. He has pricked up his ears, he dreads no dismay, Far, far he will be ere the dawning of day : Ah ! but little they wot, the slumbering foe, Of what is to come, and what they shall know. Tes, yet he will drink in clear Jordan's sweet stream, So hallowed in history, story, and dream ; And feed on the grain that children shall bring, From out of their hands, as they prattle and spring. Now thus, in an instant, he bent his head down, Where his master lay lone, far from his loved town ; Then seized the tough belt, that spanned his waist round, And bore him away with a galloping bound. He flies with such speed, to pursue is in vain, Yet, no more shall he course the desert again : His master he saved, broken-hearted he fell, As they, to this day, in Jericho tell. |atr f ranxe. I DREAMED my cou...« less