How grimly thus the strangers
essay’d their lives to save!
And so the arm’d assailants
from out the house they drave;
Yet left they dead within it
five hundred men or more:
And all of the defenders
were red and wet with gore.
How grimly thus the strangers
essay’d their lives to save!
And so the arm’d assailants
from out the house they drave;
Yet left they dead within it
five hundred men or more:
And all of the defenders
were red and wet with gore.