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KARMAYOGIN.
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(Continued from the last issue.) Small rospite had the slender band who hold Fata constant with that brittle hoop of steel; For like the orest of an arriving wave, "The Malom van appeared, though slow and tired, Y ... to bronk such barrier frint, And foreort theroselves to run ;- nor long availed: For with a single cry the muskets spoke, Once and again and always, as they neared, And, like a wave arrested, for a while The masailants paured and like a wave collapsed, Spont backward in a cloud of broken pray, Rotronting. Yielded up the dangerous gorgo Saw only on the gnarlod and stumbling rine The doul and wounded heaped. But from the rear The main treinendous onset of the North Cane in a dark and undulating surge Rendloss of the check-1 mingled mass, Pathan and Mogul and the Rajput clana, All clamorous with the brazen throats of war And spitting sinoko and fire. The bullets rang Upon the rocks, but in their place unhurt. Sheltered by tree and rock the silent grim Dofonders waited, till on root and stone The confident, high-voiced, triumphant surge Began to break, to stumble, then to pause, Confusion in its narrowed front. At once Tho muskets clamoured out, the bullots sped, Doally though few; again and yet again, And some of the itapetuous falterod back And horny in wrath prosaod on; and
while they swayed Poned between flight and onset, blast on blust l'ho wolleyod doath invisible hailed in Upon ancu sein ranks. The leaders fell. . The forward hy the hullets chosen out, Prone or supine er loaning like Hiok men O'or trees and moks, clistressed the whole advanice With prohibition by the silent wrin.
So that great onget failed. And now withdrawn The generals consultod, and at last In marching, ordered ranks the footmon enne, An iron resolution in their trend Silent, deliberate. Bar in the van, Tall and large-limbod, a formidable array, 'The Pathan infantry; a chosen force, power in crest, strong-framed, tho
Rajputs marched, 'Tho chivalry of Agra led the rear, Thun Baji first brake silence, "Lo, the surge! That way but spray of death we first repelled, Cherson of Shivaji, Bhavani's sword, For you the gold prepare. Wo die indeed, But let in die with the highvoiced Assent Of Henven to our ountry's olim enforced To freedom." As he spoko, the Mogul lines Entered the inenaoing wide-throated gorge, Carefully waiking, but not long that are Endorod, for where thy entered, there they fell, Others behind in silence sterg advanced They cane, they died; still on the previous dem! Now dond fell thickoning. Yet by pacos slow The lines advanced with labour intigjte
Andrioprofen For oven n the slopes were killed and hold, Still the velocity and lethal inge ! Increased of the Mahratta bulletas dead . Rather than living held the conquered slope -- The living who, half-broken, paused. Abridged, Yet, wide, the interval.opponed adyanpo, Daunting those resoluta natures; eyes opce bold With gloomy besitation reckoned up. The dreal equivalent in human lives . Of cubita and of yards, and hardly boped One could survive the endless unacquired Country between. But from the southror wall The muskots did not hesitate, but argort Refusal stern; the bullets did not pause, Nor caloulate expense. Active they throngex] Humming like bees and stung strong
lives to death Making a holiday of carnage. Then The heads that planned pusbed swiftly
to the front The dentro yet unhurt, where Rajasthan, Plnymate of death, had sent her hero sons. They with a rapid royal reckless pace Camo striding to the intervening ground, Nor answerod elessly the bullets thick Nor paused to judge, but o'er the increasing dead Lenping and striding, shouting, sword in hand, Rushed onward with immortal courage high In mortal forms, and held the lower slope, But now the higher incline, short but steep Baffled their speed, and as they clainbered up, Compact and fiery, like the rapid breath Of Agra's hot simoom, the sheetod famo Belchod bullets. Down they fell with huge collapse, And, rolling, with their shock drove back the fow Who still attempted. Barred advance, retreat. Threatening disgrace and slaughter, for while Like a bound sacritice the Rajputs stood Diminishing each moment. Then & lord High-crested of the Rathore blan' stood out' From the perplexed assailant with his sword Beckoning the thousands on against the few. Anil hin the bullets could not toach; ko stood Defended for, morent by his lone .. Not yet exhausted. And a mighty shout Rose from behind, and in a violent flood ! The Rajputa Aung themselves on the incline Like clambering lions. Many hands received The deadl na they descended, tinging buck Thon mournful obstacles, and with a rush The lead rannted and on level ground Stroll sword in hand; yet anly for a while, For grim and straight the slogan of the south Lunpad with the fifty words to thrust the back, Baji the Purbhou leading: Thriep they came, Three times prevailed, threp times the
Saythron charge Rupelled them; till at laatio Ratbord bord, An opp appointed, led the advancing death, Nor waited to spare bis desperate holds But hurled' himself op Baji those behind Bare forward thpoe ip front, Prop right and le Mahratta muskato rang their paip out. . And withered the attack, that 'till diabolved, Still formed ognit from the insistent.com
