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They burnt a corpse upon the sand

The light shone out afar;

It guided home the plunging dhows

That beat from Zanzibar.

Spirit of Fire, where'er Thy altars rise,

Thou art the Light of Guidance to-our eyes!

In Error.

Ride with an idle whip, ride with an unused heel, But, once in a way, there will come a day When the colt must be taught to feel

The lash that falls, and the curb that galls, and the sting of the rowelled steel.

The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin.

It was not in the open fight ,

We threw away the sword,

But in the lonely watching

In the darkness by the ford.

The waters lapped, the night-wind blew,

Full-armed the Fear was born and grew,

And we were flying ere we knew

From panic in the night.

The Rout of the White Hussars.

In the daytime, when she moved about me,

In the night, when she was sleeping at my side,

I was wearied, I was wearied of her presence.

Day by day and night by night I grew to hate her

Would God that she or I had died!

The Bronckhorst Divorce Case.

A stone's throw out on either hand From that well-ordered road we tread, And all the world is wild and strange; Churl and ghoul and Djinn and sprite