Philip Freneau. 1752-1832.
The hunter and the deer a shade.[443:3]
The Indian Burying-Ground.
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.[443:4]
To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw.
Footnotes
[443:3] This line was appropriated by Campbell in "O'Connor's Child."
[443:4]
When Prussia hurried to the field,
And snatched the spear, but left the shield.
Scott: Marmion, Introduction to canto iii.