Lead the Forlorn Hope on! E'en Hopes Forlorn
Do not fail always. Scale the craggy height!
Cheer on your clamorous followers to the fight.
Citadels deemed impregnable, in scorn
Have mocked their rash beleaguerers at morn
To see them swarm their battlements ere night.
And you, your courage seems to master Fate
And mock at Time. Yet Time and Fate, at last,
In the greatest life-game have the latest cast.
Heroic 'tis to see you, strong, elate,