[September 25, 1857]
O, THAT last day in Lucknow fort!
  We knew that it was the last;
That the enemy’s lines crept surely on,
  And the end was coming fast.

To yield to that foe meant worse than death;
  And the men and we all worked on;
It was one day more of smoke and roar,
  And then it would all be done.

There was...