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A Hero and a Poem.
Under this headline the Atlanta Con
ttitution, replying to a correspondent’s
request British Soldier to publish the poem with the on “A
in China,” cir
cumstance of its origin, says:
The poem alluded to is by Sir Francis
ing Hastings rise Doyle. it The circumstance follows: giv¬
to was about as Dur¬
ing China, the in war between Great Britain and
1857 - 58 , one day a young fel¬
low named Moyse, a private of the
“Kentish Buffs,” having lagged behind
on the march with some Sikh soldiers,
was taken prisoner by the enemy , The
fellows had been drinking, which was
the cause of their detention, as they
the were hanging around the grog-train in
this hope of getting more liquor. Englishman But
had rough, drinking young
the soul of a hero. The ( hinese
officials demanded the kotow of the cap¬
tives; that is, the’ceremony o.f kneeling
and knocking the head upon the ground.
This the Indian soldiers willingly d d,
and thus saved their lives, but the Eng¬
lishman regarding the fact as a degrada¬
tion, positively refused in spite of ail
threats, and was finally beaten to death
and his body was thrown to the jackals.
The circumstance acquired peculiar in¬
terest from the fact that the quesfions of
receiving bassies the that English and hinged American em¬ the
at time upon
question lowed whether the envoys could be al¬
performing to approach the the sovereign without
kotow. The Chinese re¬
gard this obeisance as due to all the
gods, to the emperor, who is the sou of
heaven and the messenger of the gods,
and in a less degree to the officials who
represent the emperor. The extreme
obeisance, indeed, required by the em¬
peror and heaven,is kneeling and knock¬
ing the head thrice, then standing up¬
right and again kneeling, this to be
performed three times. This obeisance
had been performed by the Dutch em¬
bassadors and an envoy from liussia,
and the English and American embassa¬
dors were the first who had dared to re¬
fuse to accede to the ceremony.
As the poem to which our query refers
is a fine one, and comparatively little
known, we quote it as follows:
“Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaffed and swore,
A drunken private of the Buffs,
Who never looked before:
To-day, He beneath the foreman’s frown,
stands in Elgin’s place,
Ambassador from Britain’s crown.
And type of all her race.
Poor, Be reckless, rude, low-born, untaught,
wildered and alone,
A heart with English instinct fraught.
He yetcan call his own.
Ay! Bring tear his body limb from limb!
He cord, or ax, or flame!
Shall only England knows that not through him
come to shame.
Fair Kentish hop-fields round him seemed
Like dreams to come and go;
Bright leagues of cherry blossom gleamed,
One sheet of living snow;
The smoke above his father's door
In gray soft eddyings hung—
Must he then watch it rise no more,
Doomed by himself, so young?
Yas! honor calls; with strength like steel
He put the vision by.
Let dusky Indians whine and kneel!
An English lad must die.
And thus with eyes that would not shrink,
With knee to man unbent.
Unfaltering on its dreadful brink
To his red grave he went.
Vain mightiest fleets of iron framed.
Vain those all-shattering guns,
Unless proud England keep untamed
The strong heart of her sons!
So let his name through Europe rir
A man of mean estate,
Who died as firm as Sparta’s king,
Because his soul was great.”
A Mammoth Bunch of Asparagus.
A monster bunch of asparagus has
been on exhibition at New York. It
was grown by Robert Niehob near Phil¬
adelphia. The bunch was nearly two
feet in height and thirty-six inches in
circumference. It weighed forty pounds,
or which nearly a pound to each spike, all of
was edible. There was some
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known as the “Palmetto.” Veteran
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in the sass” line.
for English magistrates have sent to jail
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