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New Twist on quote questions
Posted by
PEGASUS
(VIP) 8 Oct 2005 9:19am
What is wrong with this quote we hear so often?
'Ours not to reason why - ours but to do or die'
i think i know
Posted by
purple_dragon13
8 Oct 2005 10:43am
i think the actual quote is from the charge of the light brigade and is 'ours is not to reason why- ours is but to do AND die '
Sorry purple_dragon
Posted by
PEGASUS
(VIP) 8 Oct 2005 11:25am
You were right on The Charge of the Light Brigrade but....
That's not it...anyone else?
Even with the incorrect English
Posted by
wilpat
(VIP) 8 Oct 2005 3:12pm
'Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die'
'Theirs is' -- might be more nearly correct
Cancel my earlier observation
Posted by
wilpat
(VIP) 8 Oct 2005 3:45pm
FWIW
It has been read/translated in both of the following ways:
Theirs was not to make reply,
Theirs was not to reason why,
Theirs was but to do and die:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
The apostrophes seem completely out of place.
If you look poem in the original handwriting of Alfred, Lord Tennyson it could be taken either way.
And the complete poem
Posted by
PEGASUS
(VIP) 8 Oct 2005 4:04pm
I agree about the apostrophes Wil
'The Charge of the Light Brigade':
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 soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's 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 turn'd 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 wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.
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