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Seringapatam

"The sleep that Tippoo Sahib sleepsHeeds not the cry of man;The faith that Tippoo Sahib keepsNo judge on earth may scan;He is the lord of whom ye holdSpirit and sense and limb,Fetter and chain are all ye gainWho dared to plead with him."
Baird was bonny and Baird was young,His heart was strong as steel,But life and death in the balance hung,For his wounds were ill to heal,"Of fifty chains the Sultan gaveWe have filled but forty-nine:We dare not fail of the perfect taleFor all Golconda's mine."
That was the hour when Lucas firstLeapt to his long renown;Like summer rains his anger burst,And swept their scruples down.

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