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12 COLUMBIAD.

Th* important poll: both armies drive to gain.

One to pollefs— the other to maintain :

Long time in even fcales the conteil hung,

Fierce to the laft, as when it firil begun.

Brave Warren like the god of war blaz'd forth,

For freedom fought, impell'd by innate v/orth;

Boldly he charg'd the fierce impetuous foe.

Then nobly fell beneath a fatal blow.

His grateful country long (hall mourn his fate^

And future fons his virtues emulate. —

Confufionnow, and wild uproar took place.

The falling Britons fillM each vacant place :

They faw their valiant fons in battle loll —

Twelve hundred lay upon th' enfanguin'd coafl-,

?'ref]i Britifli troops then pourM from all the town^

Cage ftood aloof, and anfwered groan for groan.

Columbia's fons betray 'd no figns of fear,

Each brandi fn'd in his hand a fhining fpear :

Juft then Minerva c^xne^ a heavenly form ,

And warn'd them, quick to fnun the threatening dorm

Her powerful voice the victors* all obey,

And left the mount before the clcfe of day :

Slow their defcent, no foe hung on the rear,

And Britifh troops were taught at laft to fear.

Long time within the town the Britons (laid. To fight reludant, of their foes afraid. To Nova-Scctia they at length repnir. There feek repofe from all the toils of war; And patient, ^vait a freOi fupplv of arms, Securely hous'd, and Icreen'd from v/ar's alarms.

as they reaped a 1 the cdv;int,:ge!5 incid-nt to a viflory The minds of the Britifh Wf-rr im^TcfTwi wiih a formidable iJea of their courage, and it had an infiiience upon their future operstions; inafmuch as they confidered them ao au enemy, with whom, if they gained any advan- tages, they muil pay dearly for the pofTelTjon.
 * The Americans in th's battle, might juft'y be termed the vfcHiori,