Camp-fires of the Revolution: Or, The War of Independence : Illustrated by Thrilling Events and Stories by the Old Continental Soldiers |
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Page 233 - While the moss of the valley grew red with their blood, They stirr'd not, but conquer'd and died ! The sun that now blesses our arms with his light, Saw them fall upon Ossory's plain ! Oh let him not blush, when he leaves us to-night, To find that they fell there in vain ! ERIN ! THE TEAR AND THE SMILE IN THINE EYES.
Page 371 - tis not strange; The man that's fighting day by day May well, when night comes, take a change, And down upon his knees to pray.
Page 184 - In a chariot of light from the regions of day, The goddess of Liberty came; Ten thousand celestials directed the way, And hither conducted the dame. A fair budding branch from the gardens above, Where millions with millions agree, She brought in her hand, as a pledge of her love, And the plant she named LIBERTY TREE.
Page 57 - Three bright angel forms were seen; This was Hampden, that was Sidney, With fair Liberty between. "Soon," they cried, "your foes you'll banish, Soon the triumph shall be won; Scarce shall setting Phoebus vanish, Ere the deathless deed be done.
Page 370 - And that's a sign we move in haste. He whistles to the scouts, and hark! You hear his order calm and low. Come, wave your torch across the dark, And let us see the boys that go. We may not see their forms again, God help 'em, should they find the strife!
Page 233 - Mononia ! when nature embellish'd the tint Of thy fields and thy mountains so fair, Did she ever intend that a tyrant should print The footstep of Slavery there ! No, Freedom ! whose smile we shall never resign, Go, tell our invaders, the Danes, That 'tis sweeter to bleed for an age at thy shrine, Than to sleep but a moment in chains!
Page 181 - Plains, where he fortified a camp in such a manner, as to afford security to the whole army, and where he intended to hazard a general engagement, if pushed by the enemy. The camp was on elevated ground, defended in front by two lines of intrenchments nearly parallel to each other, and between four and five hundred yards apart. The right wing rested on the Brunx, which, by making a short bend, encompassed the flank and part of the rear. The left wing reached to a pond, or small lake, of some extent,...
Page 179 - We took care they should n't, by scampering away apace. That they had not much to brag of, is a very plain case ; For if they beat us in the fight, we beat them in the race.
Page 176 - No troops perform better than we at reviews, We march and we wheel, and whatever you choose ; George would see how we fight, and we never refuse, There we all fight with courage — you may see 't in the News.
Page 216 - Burgoyne, raising his hat most gracefully, said, "The fortune of war, General Gates, has made me your prisoner," to which the conqueror, returning a courtly salute, promptly replied, "I shall always be ready to bear testimony, that it has not been through any fault of your excellency.