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Updated: September 11, 2025
At the head rode a minstrel-knight, singing an old battle-song, and whirling up his sword in the air and catching it again as it fell. Now the battle began in real earnest. A flight of arrows was let loose upon the English host, then the Normans charged up to the palisade. As well might they have flung themselves against a stone wall.
The mercenaries flung the child's dead body on to the ground; drunk with her blood, they raised their battle-song, and rushed into the strife far ahead of their Egyptian comrades. But now the Persian ranks began to move.
"I hear you are going to die on the field of battle and I want to be there that I may throw myself after you, as Douglas did after the Bruce's locket; saying 'Go thou first, brave heart, as thou art wont, and I will follow thee!" "Daisy," said the Captain, "you were singing a battle-song as we came down the hill that is what he means." "Oh! " said Daisy, her face changing from its amazed look.
You should have seen the change in this crowd of corpses. You must remember that these people had been so long accustomed to lies and snares that it would probably take days to persuade them that they were actually safe home in France. As the battle-song for which they had suffered shook the air their lips rustled like leaves. There was hardly any sound only a hoarse whisper.
In the course of the engagement, he was informed that his men were falling: he told them to fight on, it would soon be as he had predicted; and then, in louder and wilder strains, his inspiring battle-song was heard commingling with the sharp crack of the rifle and the shrill war-whoop of his brave but deluded followers.
The mistress of the bells struck the keyboard with armoured hands beautiful, slender, avenging hands; the bells above her crashed out into the battle-song of Flanders, filling sky and earth with its splendid defiance of the Hun.
"Now, listen to this," added M. Belly, enthusiastically, as he went to a piano which I was surprised to find, standing in a recruiting office; and seating himself at the instrument, he played for my especial benefit the stirring strains of a new, specially-commissioned battle-song, which, said he, "we intend to call the Marseillaise of the Paris Amazons!"
The Germans who came on in the face of the fierce rifle and artillery fire, could not face the British bayonets, and time after time were driven back in disorder. And as the British charged, always the words of their battle-song, fated for some unfathomed reason to become historic, rose above the sounds of battle: "It's a long way to Tipperary.
Young and noble lads were they who marched forth to the struggle, equipped like the Helleman soldiers of the palmy days of Athens; and as they went they sang a battle-song of Callinus which some one who, no one could tell had slightly altered for the occasion: "Come, rouse ye Greeks; what, sleeping still! Is courage dead, is shame unknown?
Five hundred of the thousand remained, and as far as they could see the German infantry was pressing on against them, column upon column, a gray world of men, ten thousand of them, as it appeared afterwards. There was no hope at all. They shook hands, some of them. One man improvised a new version of the battle-song, "Good-by, good-by to Tipperary," ending with "And we shan't get there."
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