HALT! Shoulder arms! Recover! As you were! Right wheel! Eyes left! Attention! Stand at ease! O Britain! O my country! Words like these Have made thy name a terror and a fear To all the nations. Witness Ebro's banks, Assaye, Toulouse, Nivelle, and Waterloo, Where the grim despot muttered -- @3Sauve qui peut!@1 And Ney fled darkling. -- Silence in the ranks! Inspired by these, amidst the iron crash Of armies, in the centre of his troop The soldier stands -- unmovable, not rash -- Until the forces of the foeman droop; Then knocks the Frenchmen to eternal smash, Pounding them into mummy. Shoulder, hoop! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SUMMER STORM by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE POET AND HIS BOOK by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY CAPTAIN CARPENTER by JOHN CROWE RANSOM A DESCRIPTION OF A CITY SHOWER by JONATHAN SWIFT THE COTTON BOLL by HENRY TIMROD A JAPANESE DWARF TREE by ISABEL ANDERSON LOVE'S NEW PHILOSOPHY by PHILIP AYRES |