As sometimes happens in a great extremity;[HP]
And every difficulty being dispelled,
Glory began to dawn with due sublimity,[HQ]
While Souvaroff, determined to obtain it,
Was teaching his recruits to use the bayonet.[405]
LII.
It is an actual fact, that he, commander
In chief, in proper person deigned to drill
The awkward squad, and could afford to squander
His time, a corporal's duty to fulfil;