The Siege of Baltimore, and the Battle of la Tranche

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED K SYMMOWDS, Esq. PHILADELPHIA. What pity is't that we can die but once To serve our country. Jlddison't Tragedy of Cato The thunders sound, the loud drums beat, Hark! a thousand tramping feet, Bright their arms are daz'ling bright, Reflecting back the Sun's red light, With standards streaming to the air, Ten thousand warriors brave appear. Warriors ! e'er to-morrow's sun His destin'd course through heav'n has run, A thousand widow's tears shall flow, A thousand orphans weep with woe. Warriors ! march on?your country calls, Who falls in battle nobly fall I chapter{Section 4CANTO III. Now from the dark artillery broke, Lightning flash and thunder stroke; And volum'd clouds of fiery smoke Roll in the darken'd air. Amm. Hark! the sound of clatfring arms Assail the heart with dire alarms, The deep-mouth'd cannon's thund'ring sound, TV echoing hills repeat around! The sword impatient of its prey Disdains the Sun's reflected ray! The glitt'ring muskets from afar Declare thy presence?baleful Was ! 0! 'tis the murd'rous cannon's roar- See ! 'tis the muskets light'ning flash- Carnage now dies her feet in gore? War's loudest thunders crash I 0 Britain! wail that fatal day, When on North-point's impurpled field The armies meet in dire array ? One must not be, or yield. Her Stars exalting to the sky Columbia's blue-strip'd ensign high Waves in graceful dalliance gay, And claims the honours ef the day. See long extends the British line, Their burnish'd arms refulgent shine; Troops of the Wellingtonian school ! Ne'er shall your Princely Regent's rule Or foreign monarch's scepter'd sway, Columbia's free-born sons obey. Tho' proud in arms, inur'd to war, You've spre...