the charge of the light brigade

• "Half a league, half a league

  Half a league onward"
• "All in the valley of Death

  Rode the six hundred."
• "Not tho' the soldier knew

  Some one had blunder'd"
• "Theirs not to make reply,

  Theirs not to reason why,

  Theirs but to do or die"
• "Volley'd and thunder'd"
• "Boldly they rode and well"
• "While horse and hero fell"
• "When can their glory fade?

  O the wild charge they made!"
• "Honour the charge they made!

  Honour the Light Brigade,

  Noble six hundred!"
• Alfred Lord Tennyson is praising their courage whilst subtly criticising the military blunder