(With apologies to Tennyson)
Half a mile, half a mile
Half a mile onwards
Into the land of Tigers
Walked them in hundreds
“Forward, the Lion Brigade!
“Charge for the guns’
Into the land of Tigers
Walked them in thousands
“Forward, the lion Brigade
Was there a man dismayed?
Not a single
Theirs not to fuss
Theirs not o mess
Theirs but to beat and rise
Into the land of Tigers
Walked them in thousands
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered
Stormed at with shot and shell
Boldly they walked with might
Into the land of Tigers
Walked them in thousands
Flashed all their guns bare
Lashed as turned in air
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered
Plunged into the gun powder smoke
Right through the line they broke
Tigers in their rage
Reeled under their strike
Shattered and smothered,
Then they walked back
All in their thousands
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered
Stormed at with shot and shell
The heroes met their enemy at den
They had fought their battle so well
Came through the jaws of enemy hell
All in their thousands
When can their glory fade?
Or the mighty charge they made!
All the world wondered
Honor the charge they made
Honor the Lion Brigade
All in their thousands
This poem was sent to Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka by a patriot and it is included in his book released lately titled ‘Charge of the Lion Brigade – Sri Lanka’s epic victory over terrorism’.
Related posts:
- Charge of the Lion Brigade, Sri Lanka’s epic victory over TERRORISM - Patali Champika Ranawaka (17 Oct 2009)
- Lashing burst of marching into the den of the Tiger terrorist (17 Sep 2007)
3 comments:
Oh dear. I hope the book itself is a bit better than this long boring ripoff of Tennyson.
Come on David,
Is it boring OR it's content is so hurting you?
Kapila
I find it boring in the extreme and yes very hurtful that someone can take a great poem (here is the original: http://poetry.eserver.org/light-brigade.html) and mangle it so badly in the name of so-called devotion. Don't our soldiers deserve originality at the very least? I won't even go into the subject of plagiarism.
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