Poems (Curwen)/One of the Six Hundred

by Annie Isabel Curwen

One of the "Six Hundred."

SAMUEL J. MURDOCK.

Beneath the Union Jack—
 The faithful soldier's pall—
The good old patriot lies,
 He has heard the last roll call.

And shall he go unsung,
 Who was one of that brave band,
Whose heroic charge still lives
 In the memory of our land?

He who shared the peril of
 That sadly glorious day,
And with Balaclava's heroes rode,
 Forth to that deadly fray.

It is to brave hearts like theirs,
 Old England owns her glory;
Shall his name forgotten be
 Who figured in that story?

Nay! 'twould be ingratitude;
 Let a fitting tribute rise,
That our children may know where
 One of the "Six Hundred" lies.