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i6 COLUMBIAD.

Thus fpoke the chief, with martial ardour fir'd. His brave example all his friends infpir'd. Juft as he fpoke, a ball like lightning fped — He now lies numbered with the mighty dead! — PrefsM the cold earth, in one fad hour and place! Thou too, Macpherfon! — honour'd with thy fall The hoftile ground, and hard unfeeling wall! To your remains, due rites great Cadston paid. And in the clay-cold bed your afhes laid 1 7>.e ftarting tear Hood ready in his eye,
 * The valiant Cheefe7?tan too, in death's embrace,

As the dead heroes paft in filence by!

Montgomery flain! — then Carleto?i turn'd to meet ■Arnold's brave troops, who made a good retreat : War, ficknefs, famine, hence the hofl: annov, Mock their great hopes, and all their plans deftroy.

The Britifh chief* now fought the fickly train, Reilor'd their health, and fent them home again : Save a finall remnant, who efcap'd by flight, And fav'd themfeives by dint of mortal might; Explor'd the defart-wiid with ardent eye, Brav'd the cold winds, and fnows mountaneous high! Til' infultingfoe hung on their broken rear, Til'yx^yW/ wheel'd round, and chill'd their fouls with fear^ Like as the lionefs her young befriends. From danger guards them and from fnares defends; So from the Diitons iYlaxivell wheel'd and turn'd, While fierce refentment in his bofom burn'd; Then laftiy, lodg'd them in the well-known poft-j-, Weary and faint — the gleanings of a hofl:!

knowledged : had all the Biitifii ufficers beliavei in the fame planner, they would be jiiftly entitled to that envied pre-ctij'mence which their fore-fathe £ acquired throughout the world, for thtir humane and ge- nerous treatnnent of p.ifoners.
 * General Carleton's humanity to the pri Toners, is generally ac-

f Ticonderoga,