Then being taken by the tail—a taking
Fatal to bishops as to soldiers—these
Cossacques were all cut off as day was breaking,
And found their lives were let at a short lease—
But perished without shivering or shaking,
Leaving as ladders their heaped carcasses,
O’er which Lieutenant-Colonel Yesouskoi
Marched with the brave battalion of Polouzki:—