Excerpt from The Soldiers Whom Wellington Led: Deeds of Daring, Chivalry, and Renown
"Dost thou remember, soldier old and hoary,
The days we fought and conquered side by side
On fields of battle, famous now in story,
Where Britain triumphed and where Britons died?
Dost thou remember all our old campaigning,
O"er many a field of Portugal and Spain?"
Of our old comrades few are now remaining:
How many sleep beneath the grassy plain!
"Rememberest thou the bloody Albuhera,
The deadly breach in Badajoz"s walls,
Vittoria, Salamanca, Talavera, -
Till Roncesvalles echoed to our balls?
Ha! how we drove the Frenchmen all before us,
As foam is driven on the stormy breeze!
We fought right on with conqu"ring banners o"er us
From Torres Vedras to the Pyrenees!"
So run the words of a splendid song of our soldiers of the fighting days of old, which may well serve here for, as it were, our text.
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