Search e-Library

... their dire Anguish,—abandoned now of God and man, Who for their country and their race had striven,— In vain, it seemed. At morning when the sun Page 295 Was yet below the verge, the Bhonsle sprang At a high mountain fortress, hoping so To clutch the whole wide land into his grasp; But from the North and East the Moguls poured, Swords numberless and hooves that shook the hills And... cliff against the surge. At last they reached a tiger-throated gorge Upon the way to Raigurh. Narrowing there The hills draw close, and their forbidding cliffs Threaten the prone incline. The Bhonsle paused, His fiery glance travelled in one swift gyre Hill, gorge and valley and with speed returned Mightily like an eagle on the wing To a dark youth beside him, Malsure The younger, with his... in stern silence fought and fell, Their iron hearts broken with desperate toil, The Southron rear, and to the Prabhou gave The summons of the Chief: "Ride, Baji, ride, Page 296 The Bhonsle names thee, Baji." And Baji spoke No word, but stormed with loose and streaming rein To the high frowning gorge and silent paused Before the leader. "Baji, more than once In battle thou hast stood ...