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Another column also suffered much:⁠—

And here we may remark with the historian,

You should but give few cartridges to such

Troops as are meant to march with greatest glory on:

When matters must be carried by the touch

Of the bright bayonet, and they all should hurry on;

They sometimes, with a hankering for existence,

Keep merely firing at a foolish distance.