1. Thy neighbour? It is he whom thou

Hast power to aid and bless,

Whose aching heart or burning brow
Thy soothing hand may press.

2. Thy neighbour? 'Tis the fainting poor,
Whose eye with want is dim,

Whom hunger sends from door to door;
Go thou and succour him.

3. Thy neighbour? 'Tis that weary man,
Whose years are at their brim,
Bent low with sickness, cares, and pain;
Go thou and comfort him.

4. Thy neighbour? 'Tis the heart bereft
Of every earthly gem;
Widow and orphan, helpless left:-
Go thou and shelter him.

5. Thy neighbour? Yonder toiling slave,
Fettered in thought and limb,

Whose hopes are all beyond the grave:
Go thou and ransom him.

6. Oh, pass not, pass not heedless by ;
Perhaps thou canst redeem

The breaking heart from misery:
Oh share thy lot with him.

1. The whole brigade scarcely made one effective regiment, according to the numbers of Continental armies, and yet it was more than we could spare,

As they rushed toward the front, the Russians opened on them from the guns in the redoubt on the right, with volleys of musketry and rifles. They swept proudly past, glittering in the morning sun in all the pride and splendour of war.

2. We could scarcely believe the evidence of our senses! Surely that handful of men are not going to charge an army in position! Alas! it was too true. Their desperate valour knew no bounds, and far indeed was it removed from its so-called better part-discretion.

3. They advanced in two lines, quickening their pace as they closed toward the enemy. A more fearful spectacle was never witnessed than by those who beheld these heroes rushing to the arms of death.

4. At the distance of twelve hundred yards the whole line of the enemy belched forth, from thirty iron mouths, a flood of smoke and flame, through which hissed the deadly balls. Their flight was marked by instant gaps in our ranks, by dead men and horses, by steeds flying wounded or riderless across the plain.

5. The first line is broken!-it is joined by the second!—they never halt, nor check their speed an instant. With diminished ranks, thinned by those thirty guns, which the Russians had laid with the most deadly accuracy-with a halo of flashing steel above their heads, and with a cheer which was many a noble fellow's death-cry, they flew into the smoke of the batteries; but, ere they were lost from view, the plain was strewed with their bodies, and with the carcases of horses.

6. They were exposed to an oblique fire from the batteries on the hills on both sides, as well as to a direct fire of musketry. Through the clouds of smoke we could see their sabres flashing as they rode up to the guns and dashed between them, cutting down the gunners as they stood.

7. To our delight, we saw them returning through a column of Russian infantry, scattering them like chaff, when the flank fire of the battery on the hill swept them down, scattered and broken as they were. Wounded men and dismounted troopers flying towards us told the sad tale.

8. At that very moment when they were about to retreat, an enormous mass of lancers was hurled on their flank. Colonel Shewell, of the 8th Hussars, saw the danger, and rode his few men straight at them, cutting his way through with fearful loss.

9. The other regiments turned, and engaged in a desperate encounter. With courage too great almost for credence, they were breaking their way through the columns which enveloped them, when there took place an act of atrocity without parallel in the modern warfare of civilised nations.

10. The Russian gunners, when the storm of cavalry passed, returned to their guns. They saw their own cavalry mingled with the troopers who had just ridden over them; and, to the eternal disgrace of the Russian name, the miscreants poured a murderous volley of grape and canister on the mass of struggling men and horses, mingling friend and foe in one common ruin.

11. It was as much as our heavy cavalry brigade could do to cover the retreat of the miserable remnants of the band of heroes as they returned to the place they had so lately quitted. At thirtyfive minutes past eleven not a British soldier, except the dead and dying, was left in front of the Russian guns.

place? What is a brigade? Of what regiments did the Light Brigade consist? How did they advance? When the first line was broken, what did the second do? When they reached the Russian guns, what happened? What great act of cruelty did the Russians perpetrate?

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