The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-11
NUMBER CCIIlI.
HORGRBE AND MAHRY.


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Net Mahry Daubigny, the Village Rose,
Under the Wizards Oak--old trysting place,
OF those who loved in rosy Aquitaine.
They thought themselves unmatched, but
they were not IA .,{t.gr. -.
For Hongree, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores,
Found in Lieutenant Colonel JOoles Dubosc
A rivel envious and unscrupulous,
Who thought it not foul scorn to dodge his
steps
And listen, unperceived, to all that passed
Between the simple little Village Rose
And Hongree, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores
A clumsy barrack- bully was Dubosc,
Quite unfamiliar with the well-bred tact
That animates a proper gentleman
In dealing with girl of humble rank.
You'll understand his coarseness when l say,
He would have married Mary Daubigny,
And dragged the unsophisticated girl
Into the whirl of fashionable life, ... ..
For which her singularly rustic ways
Her breeding (moral but extremely rude),
s-'""ouage (chaste but ungrammatical).
Would absolutely have untitled her.
How different to this unrefecting boor
Was Hongree, Sub-Iieutenant of Chassoores!
Contemporary with the incident
Related in our opening paragraph,
Was that sad war 'twixt Gallia and ourselves
That followed on the treaty signed at Troyes;
And SO Lieutenant Colonel Jooles Dubosc
brave soldier, he, with all his faults of style),
And Hongree, Sub-Lieutenant of Chassoores,
We're sent by Charles Of France against the
lines
OF our Sixth Henry fourteen twenty-nine),
To drive his legions ont of Aquitaine.
When Hongree, Sub-Lieutenant of Chas-
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Returned-suspecting nothing-to his camp,
After his meeting with the Village Rose,
He found inside his barrack letter-box ..
A note from the commanding officer,
Requiring his attendance at headquarters
He went, and found Lieutenant Colonel
J6oles
''Young Hongres, Sub-Iieutenant of Chas-
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This night we shall attack the English camp,
Be the forlorn hope yours-youll lead it, sir,
And lead it, too with credit, I've no doubt"
(These last words with a cruelty obvious
sneer),
LAS every man must certainly be killed
(ror you are twenty 'gainst two thousand
men,
Ii is not likely that you will return,
But what of that you'll have the benefit
OF knowing that you die a soldiers death"
Obedience was young Hongrees strongest
point, "r
But he imagined that he only owed
Allegiance to his Mahry and his king.
''If Mahry bade me lead these fated men,
I'd lead them-but do not think she would.
II Charles, my king, said Go, my son, and
die, --.,.,-.....
I'd 60, of course my duty would be clear.
But Matry is in bed asleep, hope,
And Charles, my king, three hundred leagues
from this: 10 HL
As for Leutenant-C Colonel Jooles Dubosc,
How know | that our monarch would ap-
prove
The order he has given me tonight!
My king I've sworn in all things to obey,
I'll only take my orders from my king!
Thus Hongree, Sub Lieutenant of Chassoores,
Interpreted the terms of his commission.
And Hongree, who was wise as he was good,
Disguised himself that night in ample cloak
Round tapping hat, and vizor mask Of black,
And made, unnoticed, for the English camp
He passed the unsuspecting sentinels
(Who little thought man in this disguise
Could be proper object Of suspicion),
And ere the curfew bell had doomed flights
out,
He found in audience Bedfords naughty
Duke.
"Your Grace, he said, ''start not be not
alarmed,
Although a Frenchman stands before your
eyes.
Tm Hongree, Sub-Lieutenant OF Chassoores,
Ny colonel will attack your camp tonight,
And orders me to lead the hope forlorn.
Now am sure our excellent King Charles,
Would not approve of this-but he's away
hundred leagues, and rather more than
that
So, utterly devoted to my king, gI rgfra
Blinded by my attachment to the throne
And having but its interest at heart,
feel it is my duty to disclose
All schemes that eEnanate from Colone
Jooles, Estera n.tf.ft
If believe that they are not the kind
OF schemes that our good monarch could ap
prove"
but how" said Bedford's Duke, ''do yo1
propose