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 Smith, Phelips, Fuller, Lind, and Battersby, And hosts of ranksmen round. . . Memorials linger yet to speak to thee Of those that bit the ground!

The Guards' last column yielded; dykes of dead Lay between vale and ridge, As, thinned yet closing, faint yet fierce, they sped In packs to Genappe Bridge.

Safe was my stock; my capple cow unslain; Intact each cock and hen; But Grouchy far at Wavre all day had lain, And thirty thousand men.

O Saints, had I but lost my earing corn And saved the cause once prized! O Saints, why such false witness had I borne When late I'd sympathized! . ..