"What could be more beaut-iful than these heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter". This is ironic because we don't think of dead being happy, we don't normally think of death as beautiful, and most that die in battles don't die heroically. The next line furthers this by comparing these soldiers to lions. Lions are courageous and calculating, in this case, the soldiers are just rushing into a slaughter.
I hate that I keep using the song from Game of Thrones for these posts, but it's fresh in my mind. In Rains of Castamere, "In a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws. And mine a long and sharp my lord, as long and sharp as yours". Here we have to Lords, both have sigils as lions and the lesser one thinks he is equal to the other. Ironically, we know that the Lion he thinks is weak, is actually extremely powerful. The lesser lord rushes to his death, believing he is equal but actually gets completely obliterated.
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