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Not last, though smallest, Del'ware's dauntless throng,
With Bedford, Hall, and Kirkwood grace the song:
Nor less the song of southern chiefs shall tell,
How Sumner bled, and Campbell conquering fell;
Moultrie, and M'Intosh, and Elbert stood,
Though foil'd, invincible, in streams of blood;
What time resistless Albion's torrent force
Swept round the south its wide and wasting course.
Her dreadless horsemen, high with conquest flush'd,
Through States subdued, like winds impetuous rush'd!
From them militia bands were seen to fly,
Light as the rack that scuds along the sky:
And oft, our leaders, with a gallant few,
(Names dear to fame!) the noble strife renew.
Moore, Gadsden, Caswell, Rutherford, and Ash,
With Bryant, bade the flint of battle flash;
While Gregory, Butler, Williamson, and Clark,
Bull, Lawson, Stephens, fed the growing spark,
Which, Brenan, Lacey, Sevier, taught to burn,
And from King's-mountain back on Britain turn;
'Till, rous'd by Cleveland's, Shelby's fanning breath,
It ran, like lightning, o'er the pitch-pine heath.
To turn its havoc headlong on his foes,
A whirlwind from the north, then Greene arose;
His brandish'd steel a burning meteor glar'd,
'Mid blackness bickering fire his way prepar'd;
While Marion, Pickens, Sumpter, thund'ring loud,
Roll'd down their dark'ning cliffs a living cloud;
Like spirits of the storm, beside great Greene,
Young rivals, Lee and Washington, were seen,—
Wheeling their squadron'd horse. There Howard came,
And shot through Tarleton's ranks pernicious flame.
Two Pinckneys came, in war, in peace both great,
And both conspicuous for a wreath of State:
Two Williams, diff'rent though their place of birth,
Alike their prowess, and alike their worth.
With Bedford, Hall, and Kirkwood grace the song:
Nor less the song of southern chiefs shall tell,
How Sumner bled, and Campbell conquering fell;
Moultrie, and M'Intosh, and Elbert stood,
Though foil'd, invincible, in streams of blood;
What time resistless Albion's torrent force
Swept round the south its wide and wasting course.
Her dreadless horsemen, high with conquest flush'd,
Through States subdued, like winds impetuous rush'd!
From them militia bands were seen to fly,
Light as the rack that scuds along the sky:
And oft, our leaders, with a gallant few,
(Names dear to fame!) the noble strife renew.
Moore, Gadsden, Caswell, Rutherford, and Ash,
With Bryant, bade the flint of battle flash;
While Gregory, Butler, Williamson, and Clark,
Bull, Lawson, Stephens, fed the growing spark,
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And from King's-mountain back on Britain turn;
'Till, rous'd by Cleveland's, Shelby's fanning breath,
It ran, like lightning, o'er the pitch-pine heath.
To turn its havoc headlong on his foes,
A whirlwind from the north, then Greene arose;
His brandish'd steel a burning meteor glar'd,
'Mid blackness bickering fire his way prepar'd;
While Marion, Pickens, Sumpter, thund'ring loud,
Roll'd down their dark'ning cliffs a living cloud;
Like spirits of the storm, beside great Greene,
Young rivals, Lee and Washington, were seen,—
Wheeling their squadron'd horse. There Howard came,
And shot through Tarleton's ranks pernicious flame.
Two Pinckneys came, in war, in peace both great,
And both conspicuous for a wreath of State:
Two Williams, diff'rent though their place of birth,
Alike their prowess, and alike their worth.
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