<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Verse.</h1><h1 align="center" class="head">To Our Indian Troops Going the War.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Forward</span>! Forward, gallant band!</p><p class="line">Forward, over sea and land.</p><p class="line">Where, upon a foreign strand,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Beckons Death or Victory!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Love and Faith and Duty call:</p><p class="line">England's honour summons all,</p><p class="line">By her side to stand or fall</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Makers of her history!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Let the Western foemen trace</p><p class="line">In your heart and in your face</p><p class="line">Manhood of the Aryan race</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">And its pristine chivalry!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Let your dauntless deeds attest,</p><p class="line">Nobly, proudly to the West</p><p class="line">That within the Eastern breast</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Throbs a heart as proud and free.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">By you, at Britannia's side</p><p class="line">Be the banded world defied!</p><p class="line">Yours the glory, yours the pride</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">There to conquer or to die.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Honour lives from age to age</p><p class="line">Bright on Time's recorded page.</p><p class="line">Be your sons' the heritage</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Of your dauntless memory!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Forward! forward, gallant band,</p><p class="line">Forward, over sea and land,</p><p class="line">Where, upon a foreign strand,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:4%">Beckons Death or Victory!</p></div><p class="byline">NIZAMAT JUNG.</p></body></html> · Great War