The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-09-26
QUESTIONS WITH REPLIES.
First Version The Charge Of the
Light Brigade--"The EveriaSt-
ing Memorial by HoraLo
ROnar

K. A. Can you inform me as
0 the original wording of Lord Ten
tyson's famous poem. The Charge Of
he Light Brigade" In the opening
did be not mention. by name, a
Irish officer, who was
prominent in that affair?
The first version appeared in the
london Examiner Dec. 9; 1854, and
S as follows:
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward.
All IN the valley o. Death
Rode the six hundred.
Into the Valley of Death
Rode the six hundred;
For up came an order, which
Some one had b~lunder'd.
Forward the Light Brigade:
Take the guns" Nolan said;
Into the Valley of Dealt
Rode the six hundred.
Forward TIE Light Brigade"
No man was there diSInayed,
Not tho the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd;
Theirs not to make reply.
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the Valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right Of them.
Cannon to left of the them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and Well,
Into the jaws of death.
Into the mouth Of He'll,
Rode to- six hundred.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd all at once in air.
Sabring the eunners there,
Charging an army. while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery smoke,
With many a desperate stroke
The Russian lines the broke;
Then they rode back but not,
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Vofley'd and thunderd'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
Those, that had fought SO well,
Came from the jaws of Death,
Back from tuc I1Oulh u
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O! the wild charge they made!
All the world w~onder'd,
Honor the charge they made.
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.
This poem was next printed, witt
in the Maud volume II
Lord T~ennySOn was CRITICISED
'or these alterations, and a few week
the poem in it's present form
vas printed on four auarto sheets
Lewis Edward Nolan OF the Fiji
tenth Hussars, is the officer men
toned by Tennyson. His name
BY express desire of Lore
the commander in chief a
he carried a written orde
- Lord Lucan, commander of tn
British cavalry, bidding him pre-
vent the Russians from carrying ava.
some guns they had aiken from tn
Turkish troops. Lord Cardigan, il
OF the Light Brigade, re
ceived the order from LORD Lucan
wrongly understood the instruc
tons to mean a charge straigh
down the valley. Capt. Nolan triet
10 correct his blunder, and to diver
brigade from its course down tn
to its nearer and intended alb
iectiye on the right front. As. ges
i~culating, he rode obliquely across tn,
a fragment of Russian shell
the first gun fired struck hin
IN the chest. laying it open to tn
heart, For a moment his body wit
rigid up-lifted sword arm, was born
along the front, and then droppe'
from the saddle to the ground, a
he bridgade swept onward. He wa
a dashing, impetuous, accomplishe
soldier, a superb rider and sword
man.. He spoke five European Ian
ana several indian dialect
TWO brothers. like himself, Lost thei
ives in battle
The Old Sea SERPENT.