In close deliberation they did appear to be,
And all their conversation seemed a grand determination,
To seize upon Sebastopol and set poor Turkey free!
When up steps Omar Pasha, saying here I am amongst you—
My country has been oppressed by tyranny and woes,
But now England and France in tens of thousands we’ll advance,
This grand conversation on Sebastopol arose.
The twentieth of September we ever shall remember,
Upon the heights of Alma we made the Russians run,
After a weary marching the day was hot and scorching,