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  • Charge of the Light Brigade

    [October 25, 1854]
    HALF a league, half a league,
      Half a league onward,
    All in the valley of Death
      Rode the six hundred.
    “Forward, the Light Brigade!
    Charge for the guns!” he said;
    Into the valley of Death
      Rode the six hundred.

    “Forward, the Light Brigade!”
    Was there a man dismayed?
    Not though the...

    Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  • The Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava

                                  PROLOGUE TO GENERAL HAMLEY


                       

                      Our birches yellowing and from each

                          The light leaf falling fast,

                      While squirrels from our fiery beech

                          Were bearing off the mast,
    ...