“My men,” he mutter’d,[11] “look—the dawn!—
Before can cross the lake
One boat again for other men,
The day in full will break.
“Yet note the wall. You know it well;
Ten times our force, if seen,
Though clad in mail, could never scale
Those cannon thick between.
“And here the boats.—What vote you all?—
Your guns lift up,—no breath.[11]