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                    BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST - 6                              
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"And thou must make a trooper tough and back thy way to power -              
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Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur."      
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They have looked each other between the eyes, and there they found no fault, 
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They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood, on leavened bread and salt:
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They have taken the Oath of the Brother-in-Blood on fire and fresh-cut sod,  
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On the hilt and the haft of the Khyber knife, and the Wondrous Names of God. 
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The Colonel's son he rides the mare and Kamal's boy the dun,                 
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And two come back to Fort Bukloh where there went forth but one.             
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And when they drew to the Quarter-Guard, full twenty swords flew clear -     
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There was not a man but carried his feud with the blood of the mountaineer.  
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