And found their lives were let at a short lease—
But perished without shivering or shaking,
Leaving as ladders their heaped carcasses,
O'er which Lieutenant-Colonel Yesouskoi
Marched with the brave battalion of Polouzki:—[454]
LXXVII.
This valiant man killed all the Turks he met,
But could not eat them, being in his turn
Slain by some Mussulmans,[455] who would not yet,
Without resistance, see their city burn.