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Ho! Carolina's Huguenots! rejected sons of France, On Briton and on Hessian too, in chivalry advance! Ho for your altars and your hearths! arouse, the thought inspires! .......................................................... Ho Carolina's Huguenots! the battle is begun, If lost to give the slavery, or freedom if 'tis won! ....................................................

Young Etiwando, prophet, seer, young Etiwando stood, A sprit quenchless in its fire, a spirit brooding good! The Sachem of a perished race, he stood the white man's friend, And blest the cause of Liberty, of Freedom to the end! In Freedom's cause, on Eutaw's plains, how gloriously he fell, The annals of his country point, and will forever tell![161]

[Note 161: Cette ballade contient un épisode des campagnes de la Caroline lors de la guerre de l'indépendance. Le poëte loue Etiwando, qui suivait le parti des insurgés. Quoique le Sachem n'eut qu'un bien faux intérêt à agir de la sorte, on ne saurait blâmer le barde d'exalter le défenseur d'une cause qu'il croit sainte.]

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NARRAGHANSETT WAR SONG

BY MRS. FRANCES GREEN

Wake Narraghansetts! wake! The foe is in our borders! Come forth for hill and lake; Repel the bold marauders! Disgrace and pains And servile chains Shall Indians languish under? No, we disdain The yengee's chain, And mock his booming thunder!

Come forth from vale and plain, From river, wood and fountain; Come, like the hurricane, When storms sweep o'er the mountain! Our cry shall be, «For liberty!» The strong arm we are baring; For child and sire, And council fire, The foe shall rue our daring!