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1858–1935

GORDON ( concluded )

William Watson

Arab, Egyptian, English — by the sword Cloven, or pierced with spears, or bullet-mown — In equal fate they sleep: their dust is grown A portion of the fiery sands abhorred.

And thou, what hast thou, hero, for reward, Thou, England's glory and her shame? O'erthrown Thou liest, unburied, or with grave unknown As his to whom on Nebo's height the Lord

Showed all the land of Gilead, unto Dan; Judah sea-fringed; Manasseh and Ephraim; And Jericho palmy, to where Zoar lay; And in a valley of Moab buried him,

Over against Beth-Peor, but no man Knows of his sepulchre unto this day.

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