Warren's Address
By John Pierpont
(1785-1866) |
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Stand! the ground's your own, my
braves!
Will ye give it up to slaves?
Will ye look for
greener graves?
Hope ye mercy still?
What's the mercy
despots feel?
Hear it in that battle-peal!
Read it on
yon bristling steel.
Ask it,--ye who will.
Fear ye
foes who kill for hire?
Will ye to your homes retire?
Look behind you!--they're a-fire!
And, before you, see
Who have done it!--From the vale
On they come!--And will
ye quail?--
Leaden rain and iron hail
Let their
welcome be!
In the God of battles trust!
Die we
may,--and die we must;--
But, O, where can dust to dust
Be consigned so well,
As where Heaven its dews shall shed
On the martyred patriot's bed,
And the rocks shall raise
their head,
Of his deeds to tell! |
By
John Pierpont (1785-1866)
Listed May 23, 2012 |
| Note... June 17, 1775 - Joseph Warren was
commissioned by Massachusetts as a Major-General three
days before the battle of Bunker Hill, at which he
fought as a volunteer. He was one of the last to leave
the field, and as a British officer in the redoubt
called to him to surrender, a ball struck him in the
forehead, killing him instantly. |
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