According to this poem, it was "theirs not to make reply, / theirs not to reason why, / theirs but to do and die."
Rudyard Kipling wrote a sequel to this poem about the title group's visit to the author asking him to write another poem in their honor. This poem uses a phrase paralleling a verse in Psalm 23. In this poem, "All the world wondered" as "Cossack and Russian / Reeled from the saber stroke," leading the author to ask, "When can their glory fade?" According to this poem, it was "theirs not to make reply, / theirs not to reason why, / theirs but to do and die." The title event of this poem took place during the Battle of Balaclava. For 10 points, name this 1854 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, about "the six hundred" cavalrymen riding "into the Valley of Death."
Rudyard Kipling wrote a sequel to this poem about the title group's visit to the author asking him to write another poem in their honor.
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"