Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death,
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldiers 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 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 Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder'd.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
Courage is hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or a mistake but you're not supposed to question adults or teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they don't. It all depends on who you are, where you come from. Didn't at least one of the 600 guys think about giving up and joining the other side? I mean valley of Death that's pretty salty stuff . Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometime you might even know why you're doing something. I mean , any fool can have courage. But honor , the real reason you either do something or you don't. It's who you are and maybe who you want to be. If you die trying something important then you have both honor and courage and that's pretty good. That why you should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some too.
