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 "The Charge of the Light Brigade." Of this poem there are three distinct versions.

It first appeared in the "Examiner" of Saturday, December 9, 1854.

It was next printed, with considerable alterations, in the "Maud" volume, in the summer of 1855.

A month or two later the third and final version appeared on a quarto sheet of four pages, with the following note at the bottom:—

"Having heard that the brave soldiers before Sebastopol, whom I am proud to call my countrymen, have a liking for my Ballad on the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, I have ordered a thousand copies of it to be printed for them. No writing of mine can add to the glory they have acquired in the Crimea; but if what I have heard be true, they will not be displeased to receive these copies of the Ballad