The miscellaneous works of David Humphreys Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Madrid |
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Roll down the skies, and round th' horizon spread,
With thunders fraught, the black'ning tempest sails,
And bursts tremend'ous o'er Peruvian vales:
So broke the storm, on Concord's fatal plain;
There fell our brothers, by fierce ruffians slain—
Inglorious deed! to wild despair then driv'n,
We, suppliant, made our great appeal to heav'n.
Then the shrill trumpet echo'd from afar,
And sudden blaz'd the wasting flame of war;
From State to State, swift flew the dire alarms,
And ardent youths, impetuous, rush'd to arms:
“To arms” the matrons and the virgins sung,
To arms, their sires, their husbands, brothers sprung.
No dull delay—where'er the sound was heard,
Where the red standards in the air appear'd,
Where, through vast realms, the cannon swell'd its roar,
Between th' Acadian and Floridian shore.
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