The Rani of Jhansi or the Widowed Queen

Alexander Rogers is a learned Oriental scholar and passed many years of good governmental service in -Iindustan so that he possesses the local and literary knowledge necessary for such a task and adds to these no inconsiderable practice and skill in verse witnes his excellent translation from the Persian poet Jani of the Yusuf and Zulaikha ' and the lgrge command of the poetry of Sfidi.and [...] Its heroine is that most remarkable and greaeheared",LiteratureandFiction"rREFACE woman the Rani of JhAnsi who in the time of the Mutiny played the part of an Indian Boadicea. [...] Name but the name of duty an i1 the pulse Though it be raging like the torrent's flood Fed with the food of Himalayan snows Is in an instant stilled to infant's beat ;— Steadies the hand and planted 'firm the foot Butthose who know the language of the eye Can mark the spirit that is stilled within. [...] Woe to the Kafirs woman man and child ! Strike for the Faith and be not reconciled !. Fling wide the Prophet's banner o'er the land ! Stand brothers of the Faith your sword in hand ! 'Allah-u-akbar !' be each Moslem's cry And lead the Faithful on to victory ! [Exit. [...] - They could not think them false and so it ere That when two dais ago the Art was seized 29THE RANI OF JHANSI By that one company they still believed In the lip-loyalty the others showed And were not undeceived until the mob Came from the town with that perfidious Queen And shot the Captain and young Taylor down.