“By Jove, my man will win.”
Then out spake good Valerius,
The Captain of the team,
“To all that stand upon this field
“This must rare plucky seem,
“But how can a man die better
“(If he’s to die at all)
“Than battered in and bashed and squashed
“And flattened in a maul?”
Sempronius Atratinus