The Walls of Babylon Will Protect You

Bands are stepped aside to clear the passage for heavily armed reinforcements as with clanking bronze shields and heavy tread they tramped by a small girl plucked at his girdle tell me soldier are we safe she pleaded I hear the awful noises I see the men all bleeding. The grim old campaigner blinked his eyes and thrust forward his chin as he beheld the child be not afraid little one he reassured her  the walls of Babylon will protect you over a hundred years ago never have they been broken through.