StoryTitle("caps", "The Charge of the Light Brigade") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(112, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Half a league, half a league,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Half a league onward,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All in the valley of Death", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rode the six hundred.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Forward, the Light Brigade!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Charge for the guns!\" he said:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into the valley of Death", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rode the six hundred.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0DQ", "", "\"Forward, the Light Brigade!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Was there a man dismay'd?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not tho' the soldier knew", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Someone had blunder'd:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Theirs not to make reply,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Theirs not to reason why,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Theirs but to do and die,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into the valley of Death", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rode the six hundred.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannon to right of them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannon to left of them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannon in front of them", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Volley'd and thunder'd;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Storm'd at with shot and shell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Boldly they rode and well,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into the jaws of Death,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into the mouth of Hell", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Rode the six hundred.", "") ?>
PagePoem(113, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flash'd all their sabres bare,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flash'd as they turn'd in air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sab'ring the gunners there,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Charging an army, while", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All the world wonder'd:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Plunged in the battery-smoke", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Right thro' the line they broke;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cossack and Russian", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Reel'd from the sabre stroke", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shatter'd and sunder'd.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then they rode back, but not—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Not the six hundred.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannon to right of them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannon to left of them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cannon behind them", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Volley'd and thunder'd;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Storm'd at with shot and shell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While horse and hero fell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They that had fought so well", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Came thro' the jaws of Death", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Back from the mouth of Hell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All that was left of them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Left of six hundred.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When can their glory fade?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O the wild charge they made!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All the world wonder'd.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Honor the charge they made,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Honor the Light Brigade,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Noble six hundred. ", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Alfred Tennyson.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>