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As some spent gladiator struck by Death	A
Whose reeling vision scarce a foe defines	B
For one last effort gathers all his breath	A
England draws in her lines	B
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Her blood red flag floats out full fair but flows	C
O'er crumbling bastions in fictitious state	D
Who stands a siege Cornwallis full well knows	C
Plays at a game with Fate	D
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Siege means surrender at the bitter end	E
From Ilium downward such the sword made rule	F
With few exceptions few indeed amend	E
This law in any school	F
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The student who for these has ever sought	G
'Mid his exceptions C sar counts as one	H
Besieger and besieged he victor fought	G
Under a Gallic sun	H
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For Vircinget'rex failed but at the wall	I
He strove and failed gilded by Glory's rays	J
So that true soldiership describes that Gaul	I
In terms of honest praise	J
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But there was not a Julius in the lines	B
Round which our Chief the fatal leaguer drew	K
The noble Earl though valiant never shines	B
'Mid War's majestic few	K
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By hopes and fears in agonies long tossed	L
Clinton hard fixed in method's rigid groove	M
The British Leader saw the game was lost	L
But still it had one move	M
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Could he attain yon spreading Gloucester shore	N
Could he and his cross York's majestic tide	O
He then might laugh to hear the cannon roar	N
And far for safety ride	O
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Bold was the plan and generous Light Horse Lee	P
Gives it full measure of unstinted praise	J
But PROVIDENCE declared this should not be	P
In its own wondrous ways	J
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Loud roared the storm The rattling thunders rang	Q
Against the blast his rowers could not row	R
White waves like hoary headed Homers sang	Q
Hexameters of woe	R
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Then came the time to end the mighty Play	S
To drop the curtain and to quench the lamps	T
And soon the story took its jocund way	S
Through all the Allied camps	T
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Measure for measure then was righteous law	U
The cup of Lincoln bowed Cornwallis pressed	V
And as he drank the wondering Nations saw	U
A sunrise in the West	V
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Death fell upon the Royal cause that day	S
The King stood like Swift's oak with blighted crest	V
Headpiece and Crown both cleft he drooped away	S
Hic jacet tells the rest	V
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And patriots stood where traitors late were jeered	W
Transformed from rebels into freemen bold	X
What seemed Membrino's helmet now appeared	W
A real casque of gold	X

James Barron Hope

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