Versos English James Miller Benhale

English poem

Benhale

by (1860–1947)

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Hadst thou met me as a knight, With courtesy of arms, on equal ground, Nor sought to brute and worry me with dogs Too like yourself, I should have spared you now; But thou must die: the army has decided The fate of him whose vanquish’d—St George for England! [They fight.