- Their’s not to reason why, / Their’s but to do and die
- are the correct lines and original (but incorrect then too) punctuation from Tennyson’s "Charge of the Light Brigade."
Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors. 2013.
Their’s not to reason why, / Their’s but to do and die
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