Up Johnson came, with hundreds at his back,

Exclaiming—"Juan! Juan! On, boy! brace

Your arm, and I'll bet Moscow to a dollar,

That you and I will win St. George's collar.[467]

XCVIII.

"The Seraskier is knocked upon the head,

But the stone bastion still remains, wherein

The old Pacha sits among some hundreds dead,

Smoking his pipe quite calmly 'midst the din

Of our artillery and his own: 't is said