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" Behind the bush the bowmen hide, The horse beneath the tree, Where shall I find a knight will ride The jungle paths with me ? " There are five and fifty coursers there, And four and fifty men ; When the fifty-fifth shall mount his steed, The Deccan thrives... "
Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta ... - Page 8
by Reginald Heber - 1856
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 122

England - 1877 - 798 pages
...the disguised clansman hummed under the windows of Trimbukjee Dainglia in his prison at Tanna : — " Behind the bush the bowmen hide, The horse beneath the tree ; Where shall I find a knight to ride The jungle- paths with me ? There are five-and- fifty coursers there, And four-and-fifty men;...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 29; Volume 47

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1828 - 618 pages
...been made up of verses like the following: — ' " Behind the bush the bowmen hide, The horse behind the tree : Where shall I find a knight will ride The...fifty-fifth shall mount his steed, The Deckan thrives again ! " ' Vol. I. p. 385. This poetic incident does not do much credit to the honesty or vigilance of the...
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The History of the British Empire in India, Volume 4

Edward Thornton - India - 1843 - 624 pages
...; on which it was recollected that his singing had been made up of venes like the following :— ' Behind the bush the bowmen hide. The horse beneath...men. When the fifty-fifth shall mount his steed. The Deccan thrives again.' " Heber's Narrative, vol. i. page 585. This, the bishop remarks, might have...
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The History of the British Empire in India, Volume 4

Edward Thornton - India - 1843 - 630 pages
...on which it was recollected that his singing had been made up of verses like the following : — ' Behind the bush the bowmen hide, The horse beneath...men. When the fifty-fifth shall mount his steed, The Deccan thrives again.' " Heber's Narrative, vol. i. page 585. This, the bishop remarks, might have...
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The History of the British Settlements in India

The Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by The Society for the Promoting of Christian Knowledge - 1855 - 430 pages
...Bishop Heber gives the following translation, or rather perhaps paraphrase of these verses : — " Behind the bush the bowmen hide, The horse beneath...I find a knight will ride The jungle paths with me P There are five-and-ftfty coursers there, And four-and-fifty men, AYhi'n the fifty-fifth shall mount...
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The history of the British settlements in India. to the close of the Sepoy ...

Great Britain - 1861 - 576 pages
...Bheels, and other savage tribes, flocked in great numbers to the standard of the liberated captive. " Behind the bush the bowmen hide, The horse beneath...knight will ride The jungle paths with me ? There are five-and-fifty coursers there, - And four-and-fifty men, When the fifty-fifth shall mount his steed,...
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A Comprehensive History of India, Civil, Military and Social: From ..., Volume 3

Henry Beveridge - India - 1862 - 796 pages
...but which Bishop Heber, from the account given to him, has exhibited in the following verses:— " Behind the bush the bowmen hide, The horse beneath...knight will ride The jungle paths with me ? There are five-and-fifty coursers there, Aud four-and-fifty men ; When the fifty-fifth shall mount hie steed,...
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The Conquerors, Warriors, and Statesmen of India: An Historical Narrative of ...

Sir Edward Robert Sullivan - India - 1866 - 558 pages
...Trimbukjee and the groom, it was remembered that the words of the song were these : — " Behind the wood the bowmen hide The horse beneath the tree ; Where shall I find a knight will ride The jungle path with me P There are five and fifty coursers there, And four and fifty men, When the fifty-fifth...
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The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India, Volume 1

Bholanauth Chunder - Bengal (India) - 1869 - 498 pages
...while currying and cleaning the animal, in the following Mahr^tta song :— ' Behind the bush thci bowmen hide, The horse beneath the tree ; Where shall...knight will ride The jungle paths with me ? There are five-and-fifty coursers there, And four-and-fifty men ; When the fifty-fifth shall mount his steed,...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 122

Scotland - 1877 - 812 pages
...the disguised clansman hummed under the windows of Trimbukjee Dainglia in his prison at Tanna : — "Behind the bush the bowmen hide, The horse beneath the tree ; Where shall I find a knight to ride The jungle-paths with me ? There are flve-and-fifty coursers there, And four-and-tlfty men...
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