{
 "id": "james-mcintyre/gordon-and-burnaby",
 "title": "Gordon and Burnaby",
 "ordinal": null,
 "subtitle": null,
 "poet": "James McIntyre",
 "poet_slug": "james-mcintyre",
 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poems of James McIntyre",
 "book_slug": "poems-of-james-mcintyre",
 "book_kind": "volume",
 "sequence": null,
 "container": null,
 "epigraph": null,
 "first_published": {
  "year": 1889,
  "venue": "Poems of James McIntyre (1889)",
  "note": "First located printing is this volume; an earlier periodical printing has not been established.",
  "uncertain": false,
  "sources": [
   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_11791"
  ]
 },
 "source": {
  "kind": "standard-ebooks",
  "repo": "standardebooks/james-mcintyre_poetry",
  "file": "poetry.xhtml",
  "upstream": [
   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_09542",
   "https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36068",
   "https://archive.org/details/cihm_11791"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
 "verification": {
  "level": "structural-only",
  "last_checked": "2026-08-20"
 },
 "stats": {
  "n_lines": 28,
  "n_stanzas": 7,
  "n_parts": 0,
  "longest_line_chars": 41,
  "max_indent": 0
 },
 "site_ready": true,
 "parts": [],
 "stanzas": [
  [
   {
    "text": "When the Chinese did rebel,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Gordon alone he could them quell,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "With justice they his name revere,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "The man who bullets did not fear.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "It seemed as if his life had charm",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "That spear or lance could never harm,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "He went alone this wondrous man",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To fight false prophet of Sudan.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Assistance it arrives too late,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And traitors they have oped the gate,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To meet the foe he doth advance,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But fatal wound receives from lance.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And Britons all they do take pride",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "In Burnaby’s Asiatic ride,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Russian mysteries to discover,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "He crossed many a plain and river.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "And his brave spirit led the van",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "To relieve Gordon in Sudan,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "With his strong arm every blow",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Laid at his feet some Arab foe.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "But strong brave man who knew no fear,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "He was transfixed by Arab spear,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "And thus brave men their lives have lost,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Of war let nations never boast.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Unless it is in self defence,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "Then they have glorious recompense,",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "But arts of peace they should be prized",
    "indent": 0
   },
   {
    "text": "By nations truly Christianized.",
    "indent": 0
   }
  ]
 ]
}