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 When a wind from the lands they had ruined awoke from sleep,

And the water began to heave and the weather to moan,

And or ever that evening ended a great gale blew,

And a wave like the wave that is raised by an earth- quake grew,

Till it smote on their hulls and their sails and their masts and their flags,

And the whole sea plunged and fell on the shot- shattered navy of Spain,

And the little Revenge herself went down by the island crags

To be lost evermore in the main.

xcv THE HEAVY BRIGADE

THE charge of the gallant three hundred, the Heavy

Brigade !

Down the hill, down the hill, thousands of Russians, Thousands of horsemen, drew to the valley and

stayed ; For Scarlett and Scarlett's three hundred were riding

by When the points of the Russian lances arose in the

sky; And he called, 'Left wheel into line!' and they

wheeled and obeyed. Then he looked at the host that had halted he knew

not why,

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