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 She fain would go with him, but he answered no,

For your parents will follow, and cause us more wo;

My Maker be witness, and this green Oak, said he,

That I ne’er shall enjoy a woman but thee.

And here where he left her a-weeping full sore,

Poor creature, she never got sight of him more,

For in short time thereafter he went to sea,

And left the sight of Britain with the tear in his eye.

And went to America, their orders being so,

There prov’d a gallant soldier,and valour did show,

That for his behaviour they ne’er could him blame,

From a corporal, at last to a serjeant he came.

Eing near Fort Niagara, in the year fifty-nine,

On the 30th of July, as he always did incline,

To frequent the green-wood at some distant place,

To breath out his sorrows his mind to solace.

Among the savage Indians, alas! here he fell:

But how he was murdered we cannot well tell,

For on the next morning they found him there dead;

Two Indians lay by him wanting their head.

Cut off with his broad sword as they understood,

As there all around him was nothing but blood,

Five wounds in his body, his hair scalpt away,

His clothes, sword, and pistol of all made a prey:

And one of his fingers from his hand they had cut,

On which the gold-ring from his love- he had got,