Here you will find thePoemTo One of our woundedof poet William Henry Ogilvie
Old Man, by your broad contented grin And the gleam in your quiet eyes, You are back with 'Jorrocks' and 'Binjimin' In the land where the good fun lies; You are riding where rifles reach you not On a line both safe and sure From the meet at the 'Cat and Custard Pot' To the kill on Wandermoor. In vain do the cannon of memory call From the Flanders fields forlorn, When you hear by the stacks of Barley Hall The twang of the ''ard un's' horn; And little you reck of a broken thigh And a bandaged arm to boot, When the old comedian canters by On his 'henterpriseless brute.' For, back to you comes each sound and sight At a touch of the magic pen, Till you take your place in the old first flight, With a lead on the grass again, And Surtees, the sage with the jester's art, Would be proud had he lived to know He had brightened an hour for your gallant heart With the ring of his 'Tally-ho!'
