William McCarty, comp. The American National Song Book. 1842.
Ode to the Memory of Dr. Joseph Warren
O
Immortal Warren! you suffice to teach,
The orator may fill the warrior’s part,
And active souls be join’d with fluent speech.
Immortal reviviscence to the dead,
Changed to a hero now, forever live,
In fame’s eternal roll, with those he led?
Of blustering words unknown to hardy deeds!
And callous G——— superior merit claim,
In grinning laughter, while his country bleeds.
And freedom totter’d on destruction’s brink;
Warren stept forth, to solemnize the day,
And dared to speak what some scarce dared to think.
He in his latest, as his earliest breath,
In camp or forum equally could dare,
And seal his bold philippic with his death.