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Lo 1 now the battle clos'd with clreadful found, And men and arms promifcuous flrew'd the ground : Dreadful the fight when two fuch hofts appear! The day was Britain's, but It coil them dear. The valiant Gresn then meafurM back the plain^, ^ By forced marches to fair Camden came; >

To Gates once fatal, and to him the fame. 3

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.AWDON a Dritifli peer beheld from far. The valliant Green prepar'd for dreadful war; And as the hod with martial front drew nigh, Great Raivdon mark'd him with a piercing eye; And feiz'd the moment when th' unwary foe Was lead prepar'd for any fudden blow : Then rais'd his voice and thus his thoughts brol^e forth: Ye generous Britons! men of mighty worth! Thinlc on your fathers fame, and deeds of old; Like them be valiant, and like them be bold : Grafp well your arms, and play the men this day, For the man dies that dares to runaway!— Rufh on the foe, and with delerminM force Drive oppofiiion from its headlong courfe.

Then on Columbia's hofl they furious ran. The new- rais'd troops a (liameful flight began: Yet long the arduous fight brave Green maintain d, A dear bought victory the Britons gain'd! Licentious joys fucceed, and wild uproar. The haughty victors plunder rich anf poor :