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William McCarty, comp. The American National Song Book. 1842.

To the Memory of Major Fleming and Lieutenant Yates

PERMIT an artless muse, in votive lays,

To speak in Fleming’s and in Yeates’s praise;

And, in a grateful strain, to tell

How well they fought, how well they fell.

When Freedom’s cause, by base, tyrannic hands,

Was seeming hurt, yet shined in distant lands—

When fair Virginia nigh a spoil was made,

And thought bereft of liberty and trade,

We saw these youths with honest rage pursue

The daring foe who would their land subdue:

From state to state the ireful fiend was sent,

On bloody schemes and on dire mischief bent—

Till, met in battle near great Nassau’s hall,

Our youthful heroes like brave Wolfe did fall;

When victory was pronounced on Freedom’s side,

They view’d their wounds, they smiled, they died.

From their example let us ever try

To dare our foes, and learn, like them, to die.