IX.
The columns were in movement one and all,
But of the portion which attacked by water,
Thicker than leaves the lives began to fall,[416]
Though led by Arseniew, that great son of slaughter,
As brave as ever faced both bomb and ball.
"Carnage" (so Wordsworth tells you) "is God's daughter:"[417]
If he speak truth, she is Christ's sister, and
Just now behaved as in the Holy Land.
