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...shingles grey their lances start, The braken bush sends forth the dart ; The rushes and the willow wand Are bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of broom gives life To plaided warrior arm'd for strife." At the bridge of Turk a road turns off for Glenfinlas, once a royal deer forest....

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...once the lurking foe : From shingles grey their lances start, The bracken bush sends forth the dart, As if the yawning hill to heaven A subterranean host had given." The Amakosa advance, horsemen in front, whilst pushing vigorously after them are long black lines of...