Nature (H.D. Carberry)

The Charge of the Light Brigade (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

Line 1: Half a league, half a league,

Line 2: Half a league onward,

Line 3: All in the valley of Death

Line 4: Rode the six hundred.

Line 5: Forward, the Light Brigade!

Line 6: Charge for the guns! he said.

Line 7: Into the valley of Death

Line 8: Rode the six hundred.

Line 9: Forward, the Light Brigade!

Line 10: Was there a man dismayed?

Line 11: Not though the soldier knew

Line 12: Some one had blundered.

Line 13: Theirs not to make reply,

Line 14: Theirs not to reason why,

Line 15: Theirs but to do and die.

Line 16: Into the valley of Death

Line 17: Rode the six hundred.

Line 18: Cannon to right of them,

Line 19: Cannon to left of them,

Line 20: Cannon in front of them

Line 21: Volleyed and thundered;

Line 22: Stormed at with shot and shell,

Line 23: Boldly they rode and well,

Line 24: Into the jaws of Death,

Line 25: Into the mouth of Hell

Line 26: Rode the six hundred.