The miscellaneous works of David Humphreys Late Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Madrid |
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Columbians! friends! in fields of battle brave!
Defend those rights the God of nature gave.
Heav'ns! what the price those rights, invaded, cost!
What wealth expended and what heroes lost!
Their shades still cry from many a battle-plain,
“Who bled for FREEDOM have not bled in vain.”
I see blest Warren rise—an awful shade—
And great Montgomery wave the crimson'd blade;
Mild Mercer, dreadful in the fields of war;
Athletic Brown, deform'd with many a scar;
Scammel, his country's boast, the Britons' shame;
De Hart, who fell when dawning into fame;
De Kalb (from Gallic climes) the vet'rans' pride;
Laurens, the last who for his country died!
These cry for union—with ten thousand more,
Without a shroud who fester'd in their gore;
Swept from the field in undistinguish'd doom,
And thrown promiscuous in a common tomb—
Self-offered victims for their country's good,
Who ratified our charter'd rights with blood.
Defend those rights the God of nature gave.
Heav'ns! what the price those rights, invaded, cost!
What wealth expended and what heroes lost!
Their shades still cry from many a battle-plain,
“Who bled for FREEDOM have not bled in vain.”
I see blest Warren rise—an awful shade—
And great Montgomery wave the crimson'd blade;
Mild Mercer, dreadful in the fields of war;
Athletic Brown, deform'd with many a scar;
Scammel, his country's boast, the Britons' shame;
De Hart, who fell when dawning into fame;
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Laurens, the last who for his country died!
These cry for union—with ten thousand more,
Without a shroud who fester'd in their gore;
Swept from the field in undistinguish'd doom,
And thrown promiscuous in a common tomb—
Self-offered victims for their country's good,
Who ratified our charter'd rights with blood.
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