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Dramatic Lyrics



By Robert Browning 













CAVALIER TUNES。







  I。 MARCHING ALONG。







I。







Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King;



Bidding the crop…headed Parliament swing:



And; pressing a troop unable to stoop



And see the rogues flourish and honest folk droop;



Marched them along; fifty…score strong;



Great…hearted gentlemen; singing this song。







II。







God for King Charles! Pym and such carles



To the Devil that prompts 'em their treasonous parles!



Cavaliers; up!  Lips from the cup;



Hands from the pasty; nor bite take nor sup



Till you're…







CHORUS。…Marching along; fifty…score strong;



          Great…hearted gentlemen; singing this song。







III。







Hampden to hell; and his obsequies' knell



Serve Hazelrig; Fiennes; and young Harry as well!



England; good cheer!  Rupert is near!



Kentish and loyalists; keep we not here







CHORUS。…Marching along; fifty…score strong;



          Great…hearted gentlemen; singing this song?







IV。







Then; God for King Charles!  Pym and his snarls



To the Devil that pricks on such pestilent carles!



Hold by the right; you double your might;



So; onward to Nottingham; fresh for the fight;







CHORUS。…March we along; fifty…score strong;



          Great…hearted gentlemen; singing this song!















  II。 GIVE A ROUSE。







I。







King Charles; and who'll do him right now?



King Charles; and who's ripe for fight now?



Give a rouse: here's; in hell's despite now;



King Charles!







II。







Who gave me the goods that went since?



Who raised me the house that sank once?



Who helped me to gold I spent since?



Who found me in wine you drank once?







CHORUS。…King Charles; and who'll do him right now?



          King Charles; and who's ripe for fight now?



          Give a rouse: here's; in hell's despite now;



          King Charles!







III。







To whom used my boy George quaff else;



By the old fool's side that begot him?



For whom did he cheer and laugh else;



While Noll's damned troopers shot him?







CHORUS。…King Charles; and who'll do him right now?



          King Charles; and who's ripe for fight now?



          Give a rouse: here's; in hell's despite now;



          King Charles!















  III。  BOOT AND SADDLE。







I。







Boot; saddle; to horse; and away!



Rescue my castle before the hot day



Brightens to blue from its silvery grey;







CHORUS。…Boot; saddle; to horse; and away!







II。







Ride past the suburbs; asleep as you'd say;



Many's the friend there; will listen and pray



‘‘God's luck to gallants that strike up the lay…







CHORUS。…‘‘Boot; saddle; to horse; and away!''







III。







Forty miles off; like a roebuck at bay;



Flouts Castle Brancepeth the Roundheads' array:



Who laughs; ‘‘Good fellows ere this; by my fay;







CHORUS。…‘‘Boot; saddle; to horse; and away!''







IV。







Who?  My wife Gertrude; that; honest and gay;



Laughs when you talk  of surrendering; ‘‘Nay!



‘‘I've better counsellors; what counsel they?







CHORUS。…‘‘Boot; saddle; to horse; and away!''















THE LOST LEADER。







I。







Just for a handful of silver he left us;



  Just for a riband to stick in his coat…



Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us;



  Lost all the others she lets us devote;



They; with the gold to give; doled him out silver;



  So much was theirs who so little allowed:



How all our copper had gone for his service!



  Rags…were they purple; his heart had been proud!



We that had loved him so; followed him; honoured him;



  Lived in his mild and magnificent eye;



Learned his great language; caught his clear accents;



  Made him our pattern to live and to die!



Shakespeare was of us; Milton was for us;



  Burns; Shelley; were with us;…they watch from their graves!



He alone breaks from the van and the free…men;



  …He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!







II。







We shall march prospering;…not thro' his presence;



  Songs may inspirit us;…not from his lyre;



Deeds will be done;…while he boasts his quiescence;



  Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire:



Blot out his name; then; record one lost soul more;



  One task more declined; one more foot…path untrod;



One more devils'…triumph and sorrow for angels;



  One wrong more to man; one more insult to God!



Life's night begins: let him never come back to us!



  There would be doubt; hesitation and pain;



Forced praise on our part…the glimmer of twilight;



  Never glad confident morning again!



Best fight on well; for we taught him…strike gallantly;



  Menace our heart ere we master his own;



Then let him receive the new knowledge and wait us;



  Pardoned in heaven; the first by the throne!



















‘‘HOW THEY BROUGHT THE GOOD NEWS FROM GHENT TO AIX。''



'16…。'







I。







I sprang to the stirrup; and Joris; and he;



I galloped; Dirck galloped; we galloped all three;



‘‘Good speed!'' cried the watch; as the gate…bolts undrew;



‘‘Speed!'' echoed the wall to us galloping through;



Behind shut the postern; the lights sank to rest;



And into the midnight we galloped abreast。







II。







Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace



Neck by neck; stride by stride; never changing our place;



I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight;



Then shortened each stirrup; and set the pique right;



Rebuckled the cheek…strap; chained slacker the bit;



Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit。







III。







'Twas moonset at starting; but while we drew near



Lokeren; the cocks crew and twilight dawned clear;



At Boom; a great yellow star came out to see;



At Dffeld;'twas morning as plain as could be;



And from Mecheln church…steeple we heard the half…chime;



So; Joris broke silence with; ‘‘Yet there is time!''







IV。







At Aershot; up leaped of a sudden the sun;



And against him the cattle stood black every one;



To stare thro' the mist at us galloping past;



And I saw my stout galloper Roland at last;



With resolute shoulders; each hutting away



The haze; as some bluff river headland its spray:







V。







And his low head and crest; just one sharp ear bent back



For my voice; and the other pricked out on his track;



And one eye's black intelligence;…ever that glance

'er its white edge at me; his own master;  askance!



And the thick heavy spume…flakes which aye  and anon



His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on。







VI。







By Hasselt; Dirck groaned; and cried Joris; ‘‘Stay spur!



‘‘Your Roos galloped bravely; the fault's  not in her;



‘‘We'll remember at Aix''…for one heard the quick wheeze



Of her chest; saw the stretched neck and staggering knees;



And sunk tail; and horrible heave of the flank;



As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank。







VII。







So; we were left galloping; Joris and I;



Past Looz and past Tongres; no cloud in the sky;



The broad sun above laughed a pitiless laugh;



'Neath our feet broke the brittle bright stubble like chaff;



Till over by Dalhem a dome…spire sprang white;



And ‘‘Gallop;'' gasped Joris; ‘‘for Aix is in sight!''







VIII。







‘‘How they'll greet us!''…and all in a moment his roan



Rolled neck and croup over; lay dead as a stone;



And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight



Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate;



With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim;



And with circles of red for his eye…sockets' rim。







IX。







Then I cast loose my buffcoat; each holster let fall;



Shook off both my jack…boots; let go belt and all;



Stood up in the stirrup; leaned; patted his ear;



Called my Roland his pet…name; my horse without peer;



Clapped my hands; laughed and sang; any noise; bad or good;



Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and  stood。







X。







And all I remember is…friends flocking round



As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground;



And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine;



As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine;



Which (the burgesses voted by common consent)



Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent。



















THROUGH THE METIDJA TO ABD…EL…KADR。







'Abd…el…Kadr was an Arab Chief of Algiers who resisted the French in 1833。'







I。







As I ride; as I ride;



With a full heart for my guide;



So its tide rocks my side;



As I ride; as I ride;



That; as I were double…eyed;



He; in whom our Tribes confide;



Is descried; ways untried



As I ride; as I ride。







II。







As I ride; as I ride



To our Chief and his Allied;



Who dares chide my heart's pride



As I ride; as I ride?



Or are witnesses denied…



Through the desert waste and wide



Do I glide unespied



As I ride; as I ride?







III。







As I ride; as I ride;



When an inner voice has cried;



The sands slide; nor abide



(As I ride; as I ride)



O'er each visioned
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