Epitaph For An English Soldier And An Indian Soldier Buried Together In France

"When the gusts are at play with the trees on the lawn,         And the lights are put out in the vault of the night;     When within all is snug"

"It was deadly cold in Danbury town         One terrible night in mid November,         A night that the Danbury folk remember     For the sleet"

"Tested and staunch through many a changing year,     Gelert, his master's faithful hound, lies here.     Humble in friendship, but in service pr"

"Tufted and bunched and ranged with careless art     Here, where the paving-stones are set apart,     Alert and gay and innocent of guile,     T"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"