With fire and sword the country round<br /> Was wasted far and wide,<br />And many a childing mother then,<br /> And new-born infant, died.<br />But things like that, you know, must be<br />At every famous victory.<br /><br />They say it was a shocking sight,<br /> After the field was won,<br />For many thousand bodies here<br /> Lay rotting in the sun;<br />But things like that, you know, must be<br />After a famous victory.