Miscellany of Verse and Prose (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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New York, towards the end of the summer of 1780.

Sir Henry Clinton. Colonel Robinson. An Old British Officer.

Sir H. Clinton. Rebellion's tatter'd banner droops at last,
Wanting the breath of stirring confidence.
Discord, twin-brother to defeat, now lifts
Within the Congress walls her grating voice
(Fit sound for rebel ears,) and in their camp,
Lean want breeds discontent and mutiny:
The while o'er our embattled squadrons waves
High-crested victory, and flaps her wings,
Fanning the fire of native valiantness.
Quickly shall peace revisit this vext land,
So long bestrid by war, whose iron heel
With her own life-blood madly stains her sides.

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