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I voted also. Great job everyone, it was a really tough choice!

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I couldn't decide. My favorite poems have changed over the years, but this is one of the poems that really hooked me when I was about 12.

The Charge of the Light Brigade

 

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Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward,

All in the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

"Forward, the Light Brigade!

Charge for the guns!" he said:

Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

 

"Forward, the Light Brigade!"

Was there a man dismayed?

Not though the soldier knew

Some one had blundered:

Their's not to make reply,

Their's not to reason why,

Their's but to do and die:

Into the valley of Death

Rode the six hundred.

 

Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon in front of them

Volleyed and thundered;

Stormed at with shot and shell,

Boldly they rode and well,

Into the jaws of Death,

Into the mouth of Hell

Rode the six hundred.

 

Flashed all their sabres bare,

Flashed as they turned in air

Sabring the gunners there,

Charging an army, while

All the world wondered:

Plunged in the battery-smoke

Right through the line they broke;

Cossack and Russian

Reeled from the sabre-stroke

Shattered and sundered.

Then they rode back, but not,

Not the six hundred.

 

Cannon to right of them,

Cannon to left of them,

Cannon behind them

Volleyed and thundered;

Stormed at with shot and shell,

While horse and hero fell,

They that had fought so well

Came through the jaws of Death

Back from the mouth of Hell,

All that was left of them,

Left of six hundred.

 

When can their glory fade?

O the wild charge they made!

All the world wondered.

Honour the charge they made!

Honour the Light Brigade,

Noble six hundred!

edit: It's by Tennyson.

You bought my vote!

Seriously, that was great! Too much fun.

I had guessed you for that one first and then for some reason changed it. I so should have stuck with my first impressions.

I suck so bad!

I just want to apologize to everyone whom I misguessed.

I only knew Icy's and it's because I know her so well. I totally guessed at everyone elses. Except for Copper, that was an educated guess.

Fine, you can post mine too. I hope I either do awesome (accidently) or fail so horribly that I end up last.

lol. No problemo.

Ok, so since I'm easily confused. Did I do it right in my PM?

This is soooooo much harder than you would think! I'm starting to get down to random guesses, since process of elimination isn't working! And I've changed my mind four or five times already! I KNOW some of my answers make no sense, so I'm really hoping Dex doesn't share who went for what!

No kidding. I had to just guess on pretty much all but one.

I'm going to use the excuse that since I'm usually I work, I skim through everyone's work. I don't have a chance to focus on it like I would at home. Yeah, I'm going to use that excuse.

Okay, so I know, absolutely, one of them. I'm still going to embarass myself, but maybe not quite so badly now.

I second that!

Oh my gosh, I'm going to totally embarrass myself trying to guess.

I'm so glad I'm out. I suck so horribly at unscrambling words, it's not even funny. My brain just doesn't work that way.

 

Yeah, I'm totally the same.

 

Team Discovery Channel still rules, tho!

Woohoo! *highfives and chest butts Icy* I'm glad my brain's not the only one.

You guys do rule! I hope you come back for the next one.

I'm kind of competitive, so yeah, it might happen.

Drat, I thought that might be the case though.

So to clarify - since we missed the cut, does that knock us out of the competition completely or are we in for the duration and it gets scored at the end?

Woo! Team Discovery Channel! Yeah! *High fives Icy*

Um, yeah.

I'm probably too late, but sent anyways.

I'm going to tag Icy to cover any questions for the weekend. Unless something is posted before 5pm, I don't have internet access except at work. So I'll be back Monday morning.

Answer to question #1 sent.

Ok, Iceheart has agreed to be my buddy. We're already buddies, but she's going to be my game buddy too. Cause she's cool like that and stuff. And you can just call us Team Discovery Channel.

I PM'd somebody to see if she'd partner up with me. She's just as busy as I am, I think, so that way when neither of us finish the contest we can't be mad at each other.

SD, can you give a very general idea of what a reading contest is? I'm not a writer by any means, but I can certainly read!