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When we arrived at Kishan, we learnt, that on hearing of the advance of Lord Raymond and his detachment, the Turkish army had retreated from Rodosto; but meeting with a reinforcement, they had re-trod their steps. In the meantime, Argyropylo, the Greek commander-in-chief, had advanced, so as to be between the Turks and Rodosto; a battle, it was said, was inevitable.
It is too long to quote in full, but one may give the last verses of this lyric of lovers in a lane: When I re-trod that watery way Some hours beyond the droop of day, Still I found pacing there the twain Just as slowly, just as sadly, Heedless of the night and rain. One could but wonder who they were And what wild woe detained them there.
Over the head of pleading love stretched the arm of stony-eyed duty, striking into the dust the crystal drops, withering the palms; and following her stern beckon, the thirsty pilgrim re-trod the sands of surrender, more intolerable than before, because the oasis was still in sight. Duty! Rugged incorruptible Spartan dame, whose inflexible mandate is ever: "With your shield, or on it."
"It would be anything but well. I don't gallop back, depend upon it." The three men now slowly returned from their useless chase, and re-trod the way they had passed once in such a hurry that they could hardly recognize it. "What a dreadful bump I came against that pole standing there," said one. "Yes, and I came against a hedge-stake, that was placed so as the moon didn't show any light on it.
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