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Our Fathers always had been free. Those men who Freedom's battle fought, Holding all kings but One in scorn, Though with a mighty price they bought Your freedom, were free born ; And Carolina's and Virginia's blood Tempered to like disdain of shackled thought, Beat with one pulse, when Liberty's glad morn Alike to North and South broke o'er the Atlantic flood v. Why should the Muse on dreadful details dwell, To make a calendar of her lyre? Is it a story of no renown The redoubt, the frigates, t...he blazing town, Fronting the Falcon's fire ; How the regulars rushed and the yeomen fell, Butts and bayonets plying as well ; Rolled and trod in the crimson mire Of the dust and blood beneath? Close quarters then ! for a captain cries, As the troops maiched up, "Let them come nigher ! Hold till you mark the whites of their eyes, And the gleam of their British teeth. " Ah ! many felt, as the bullets flew, We fight for Englishmen in fighting you. VI. On from that dread to this triumphal June, And now while natures are all in tune, That children hereafter may come to spell Prescott and Warren and all who fell, Hard by, on that bitter afternoon, Bearing on History's page so proud a part, We hang these bronzes on our country's heart.
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