’Twas but a ha’penny.
From The Rocking of the Lilies, and other Poems, by Charles T. Druery, (Clayton & Co., London), 1882.
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Recitation.—The Charge of the
Heavy Brigade at Kassassin.
By a Life Guards’ Officer.
Half a league (more or less),
Half a league onward;
All in the moon’s pale light
Rode the Six Hundred.
“Forward!” cried Drury Lowe,
“Goodness knows where you’ll go.