“I lead. You follow. Should I fall,
Move on: my corpse may give
At least a vantage ground! Move up:
The cause, it is, must live!”
Then Allen turn’d, and Arnold[15] too,
His foremost rival still,
Then Brown and Easton,—all the line
Stole softly up the hill.[16]
A startled sentry seized his gun,
And aim’d at Allen’s face[17];