The incidents referred to in the last-mentioned parody have now somewhat faded from the public memory. It is sufficient to say that the warlike behaviour of the one brigade was quite as great a contrast to the action of the other, as the parody here given presents to the original poem:—
CHARGE OF THE LIGHT (IRISH) BRIGADE.
(Not by A——d T——n).
Southward Ho—Here we go!
O'er the wave onward
Out from the Harbour of Cork
Sailed the Six Hundred!
Sailed like Crusaders thence,
Burning for Peter's pence,—
Burning for fight and fame—