ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON

Autor del poema "LA CARGA DE LA BRIGADA LIGERA"
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The poem itself is as follows:

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 and die. /Into the valley of Death /Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them, /Cannon to left of them, /Cannon in front of them /Volley'd and thunder'd; /Storm'd at with shot and shell, /Boldly they rode and well, /Into the jaws of Death, /Into the mouth of hell /Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their sabres bare, /Flash'd as they turn'd in air /Sabring the gunners there, /Charging an army, while /All the world wonder'd. /Plunged in the battery-smoke /Right thro' the line they broke; /Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke /Shatter'd and sunder'd. /Then they rode back, but not, /Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them, /Cannon to left of them, /Cannon behind them /Volley'd and thunder'd; /Storm'd at with shot and shell, /While horse and hero fell, /They that had fought so well /Came thro' the jaws of Death, /Back from the mouth of hell, /All that was left of them, /Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade? /O the wild charge they made! /All the world wonder'd. /Honour the charge they made! /Honour the Light Brigade, /Noble six hundred! -


Alfred, Lord Tennyson





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