The+Charge+of+the+Light+Brigade

//Written 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 dismay'd ? Not tho' the soldier knew Some one had blunder'd: Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do & die, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Into the valley of Death <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rode the six hundred.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cannon to right of them, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cannon to left of them, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cannon in front of them <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Volley'd & thunder'd; <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storm'd at with shot and shell, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Boldly they rode and well, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Into the jaws of Death, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Into the mouth of Hell <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rode the six hundred.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flash'd all their sabres bare, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Flash'd as they turn'd in air <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sabring the gunners there, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Charging an army while <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All the world wonder'd: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plunged in the battery-smoke <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Right thro' the line they broke; <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cossack & Russian <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reel'd from the sabre-stroke, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shatter'd & sunder'd. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then they rode back, but not <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not the six hundred.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cannon to right of them, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cannon to left of them, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cannon behind them <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Volley'd and thunder'd; <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Storm'd at with shot and shell, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While horse & hero fell, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They that had fought so well <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Came thro' the jaws of Death, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Back from the mouth of Hell, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All that was left of them, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Left of six hundred.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When can their glory fade? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">O the wild charge they made! <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All the world wonder'd. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Honour the charge they made! <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Honour the Light Brigade, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Noble six hundred!