StoryTitle("caps", "Warren's Address To The American Soldiers") ?>
is never a boy who objects to learning "Warren's Address," by John
Pierpont (1785-1866). To stand by one's own rights is inherent in every true
American. This poem is doubtless developed from Robert Burns's
"Bannockburn." (1785-1866.)
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stand! the ground's your own, my braves!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will ye give it up to slaves?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will ye look for greener graves?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hope ye mercy still?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What's the mercy despots feel?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hear it in that battle-peal!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Read it on yon bristling steel!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ask it,—ye who will.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fear ye foes who kill for hire?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will ye to your homes retire?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Look behind you! they're afire!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And, before you, see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who have done it!—From the vale", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On they come!—And will ye quail?—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leaden rain and iron hail", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Let their welcome be!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the God of battles trust!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Die we may,—and die we must;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, O, where can dust to dust", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Be consigned so well,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As where Heaven its dews shall shed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the martyred patriot's bed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the rocks shall raise their head,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of his deeds to tell!", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("John Pierpont.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>