New batteries were erected; and was held | Some Cossacques, hovering like hawks It is an actual fact, that he, Commander- His time, a corporal's duty to fulfil; Was not like Jacob's) or to cross a ditch. Also he dressed up, for the nonce, fascines Like men, with turbans, scimitars, and dirks, And made them charge with bayonet these By way of lesson against actual Turks; scenes, He judged them proper to assail the works; At which your wise men sneer'd, in phrases witty : He made no answer; but he took the city. manner, They found that he had fought beneath their banner. Whereon, immediately, at his request, They brought him and his comrades to head-quarters: Their dress was Moslem, but you might have guess'd That these were merely masquerading Tartars, And that beneath each Turkish-fashioned vest Lurk'd Christianity; who sometimes barters Her inward grace for outward show, and makes It difficult to shun some strange mistakes. Suwarrow, who was standing in his shirt This great philosopher was thus instilling Mest things were in this posture on the eve Proved death in battle equal to a pension,- conceive; Yet men, resolved to dash through thick Are very silent when they once believe And others of themselves and latter ends. Sawarrow chiefly was on the alert, For the man was, we safely may assert, to storm A fortress, Harlequin in uniform. The day before the assault, while upon drill For this great Conqueror play'd the corporal- Suwarrow, when he saw this company Upon them his slow brow and piercing eye :- Captives just now escaped," was the reply. "What are ye?"-"What you see us." Briefly past This dialogue; for he who answer'd knew To whom he spoke, and made his words but few. "Your names?"-"Mine's Johnson, and my The other two are women, and the third The party a slight glance, then said: “I have heard Your name before, the second is a new one; To bring the other three here was absurd; But let that pass;-I think I have heard your name In the Nikolaiew regiment?”__“The same.”_ "You served at Widin?"-"Yes."-"You | "Right! I was busy, and forgot. Why, you led the attack?" Will join your former regiment, which "I did." "What next? "I really hardly know." "You were the first i' the breach? ""I was not slack, At least,to follow those who might be so.”— "What follow'd?"-"A shot laid me on my back, And I became a prisoner to the foe.""You shall have vengeance, for the town surrounded Is twice as strong as that where you were wounded. Where will you serve?”—“Where'er you please." "I know You like to be the hope of the forlorn, And doubtless would be foremost on the foe After the hardships you've already borne. And this young fellow; say what can he do? He with the beardless chin and garments torn?" "Why, General, if he hath no greater fault In war than love, he had better lead the assault." "He shall,if that he dare." Here Juan bowed Low as the compliment deserved. Suwarrow Continued: "Your old regiment's allowed, By special providence, to lead to-morrow, Or it may be to-night, the assault: I have vowed To several saints, that shortly plough or harrow Shall pass o'er what was Ismail, and its tusk Be unimpeded by the proudest Mosque. So now, my lads, for Glory!"-Here he All earthly goods save tithes) and bade therine. Johnson, who knew by this long colloquy In his resumed amusement; "I confess should be Into a camp; I know that nought so bothers | Who calculated life as so much dross, And as the wind a widow'd nation's wail, And cared as little for his army's loss (So that their efforts should at length prevail) As wife and friends did for the boils of Job;What was't to him to hear two women sob? Hurra! and Allah! and—one moment more undone. The death-cry drowning in the battle's roar. How sweetly on the ear such echoes sound! While the mere victor's may appal or stun The servile and the vain, such names will be A watch-word till the future shall be free The night was dark, and the thick mist | Also the General Markow, Brigadier, allowed Nught to be seen save the artillery's flame, Which arched the horizon like a fiery cloud, And in the Danube's waters shone the same, Amirror'd Hell! The volleying roar, and loud near, All common fellows, who might writhe and And shriek for water into a deaf ear,- Lang booming of each peal on peal, o'ercame | His sympathy for rank, by the same token, The column ordered on the assault, scarce Beyond the Russian batteries a few toises, Then one vast fire, air, earth, and stream Which rocked as 'twere beneath the mighty when The restless Titan hiccups in his den. broken. Three hundred cannon threw up their emetic, Like the death-watch,within our ears the ills To the true portrait of one battle-field. There the still varying pangs, which mul- Until their very number makes men hard And one enormous shout of "Allah!" rose close With thick'ning canopy the conflict o'er, The columns were in movement, one and all; water, Thicker than leaves the lives began to fall, Though led by Arseniew, that great son of Slaughter, A brave as ever faced both bomb and ball. "Carnage" (so Wordsworth tells you) "is rest May win perhaps a ribbon at the breast! Yet I love Glory;- Glory's a great thing; God's daughter: "The troops already disembark'd push'd on If he speak truth, she is Christ's sister, andTo take a battery on the right; the others, Just now behaved as in the Holy Land. Who landed lower down, their landing done, The Prince de Ligne was wounded in the knee; Cont Chapean-Bras too had a ball between His O'er the entrenchment and the palisade, cap and head, which proves the head | Quite orderly, as if upon parade. to be Aristocratic as was ever seen, Beranse it then received no injury And this was admirable; for so hot More than the cap; in fact the ball could The fire was, that were red Vesuvius loaded, mean No harm unto a right legitimate head : Ashes to ashes"-why not, lead to lead? | Besides its lava, with all sorts of shot And shells or hells, it could not more have goaded. |