bays,

In the backward ranks of the foaming flanks a

double troop of grays;

The horses are galloping muzzle to tail, and back

of the waving manes

The troopers sit, their brows all knit, a left hand

on the reins.

Their hats are gray, and their shirts of blue have

a sabre cross and 7,

And little they know, when the trumpeters blow,