The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred Lord Tennyson
1809 to 1892
Track 1
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Left of six hundred.
Rode the six hundred.
Volleyed and thundered;
Cannon to left of them,
Sabring the gunners there,
Into the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of hell,
Right through the line they broke;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell.
Noble six hundred!
All the world wondered.
Not the six hundred.
Honour the Light Brigade,
Theirs but to do and die.
Flashed all their sabres bare,
Not though the soldier knew
Boldly they rode and well,
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Into the valley of Death
Then they rode back, but not
Cannon in front of them
Cossack and Russian
Cannon to right of them,
Into the valley of Death
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Half a league, half a league,
“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Honour the charge they made!
Theirs not to reason why,
Cannon to right of them,
Rode the six hundred.
Rode the six hundred.
Charging an army, while
Cannon to left of them,
Was there a man dismayed?
Cannon behind them
All the world wondered.
Volleyed and thundered;
Half a league onward,
They that had fought so well
Shattered and sundered.
Into the mouth of hell
Flashed as they turned in air
O the wild charge they made!
Came through the jaws of Death,
Reeled from the sabre stroke
Rode the six hundred.
Someone had blundered.
All that was left of them,
All in the valley of Death
When can their glory fade?
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Theirs not to make reply,
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
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