bian people will never forget him. He
has now become one of their national heroes. Their imaginative and
poetical natures see him now as one greater than a mere man, as a sort
of superman with the attributes of a god. So they sing in the valley
of the Vardar and in the meadows and mountains of Montenegro and
Albania the sad but spirited song of which the words in English are:--
"Colonel Batsicht, the Austrians are a thousand to one, but what does
it matter? You are only one, yourself, but you are Colonel Batsicht!
Were the Austrians as many as the leaves in the forests and their rush
to attack more violent than the flood of the Vardar in the spring time,
you would even then be their equal, Colonel Batsicht!"
WHERE ARE YOU GOING, GREAT-HEART?
Where are you going, Great-Heart,
With your eager face and your fiery grace?--
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To fight a fight with all my might,
For Truth and Justice, God and Right,
To grace all Life with His fair Light."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To beard the Devil in his den;
To smite him with the strength of ten;
To set at large the souls of men."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To end the rule of knavery;
To break the yoke of slavery;
To give the world delivery."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
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Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To cleanse the earth of noisome things
To draw from life its poison-stings;
To give free play to Freedom's wings."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To lift Today above the Past;
To make Tomorrow sure and fast;
To nail God's colors to the mast."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To break down old dividing-lines;
To carry out My Lord's designs;
To build again His broken shrines."
Then God go with you, Great-Heart!
Where are you going, Great-Heart?
"To set all burdened peoples free;
To win for all God's liberty;
To 'stablish His Sweet Sovereignty."
God goeth with you, Great-Heart!
JOHN OXENHAM.
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"Let it be your pride, therefore, to show all men everywhere, not only
what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are, keeping
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