By permission of Author and Publisher. _The Reveille_ was
spoken before a Union Meeting at San Francisco at the beginning
of the Civil War and appeared in a volume of the Author's poems
in 1867. _What the Bullet Sang_ is much later work: dating,
thinks Mr. Harte, from '79 or '80.
CXXI
_St. James's Magazine_, October 1877, and _At the Sign of the
Lyre_ (Kegan Paul, 1889). By permission of the Author.
CXXII
_St. James's Gazette_, 20th July 1888, and _Grass of Parnassus_
(Longmans, 1888). By permission of Author and Publisher. Written
in memory of Gordon's betrayal and death, but while there were
yet hopes and rumours of escape.
CXXIII
_Underwoods_ (Chatto and Windus, 1886). By permission of the
Publishers.
CXXIV
_Love's Looking-Glass_ (Percival, 1891). By permission of
the Author.
CXXV
_Macmillan's Magazine_, November 1889. By permission of
the Author. Kamal Khan is a Pathan; and the scene of this
exploit--which, I am told, is perfectly consonant with the history
and tradition of Guides and Pathans both--is the North Frontier
country in the Peshawar-Kohat region, say, between Abazai and
Bonair, behind which is stationed the Punjab Irregular Frontier
Force--'the steel head of the lance couched for the defence of
India.' As for the Queen's Own Corps of Guides, to the general
'God's Own Guides' (from its exclusiveness and gallantry),
it comprehends both horse and foot, is recruited from Sikhs,
Pathans, Rajputs, Afghans, all the fighting races, is officered
both by natives and by Englishmen, and in all respects is worthy
of this admirable ballad.
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