When The Drummers Charge

Which song would sound loudest

Through this impenetrable valley?

A lone whisper lulled goodbye,

With the Fifers & Drummers charging? 

The hour coveted in snow 

Beyond the palisades, they've rallied, 

Under volley with their volts

Moving in smoke-field dodging cannons

Orderlies and majors roll

Forming their flanking ranks,

Taking up arms on those who flee

Descending on the foray along the battlements.

Sabers splitting sash

Dividing blue & gold,

A bugle ends the conflict

When blood makes the grasses grow.

Would this valley be a ditch? 

Will this songbird muffle, sigh? 

Clinching guts with a lone slow bleed

With the bodies that we've left behind.