“To check their march, like mushrooms grew
Our earthworks, night by night;
But, if attack’d, our men would not
Have arms with which to fight.”[2]
At Hartford our Assembly met,[3]
And heard this; nor in vain.
It sent men off to seize what fill’d
The fort on Lake Champlain.
These pass’d to Pittsfield,[4] there were join’d
By Easton, Brown, and more;