About the form of him they felt
Was grander than their king.
He came back home, and church bells rang—
You might, in truth, have thought[25]
A second Christmas day had come,
And Saviour’s advent brought;—
And guns were fired; and, hail’d with cheers,
Vermont bade all men call
This bravest, brightest of her sons,
The General of them all.[25]