That England seeks to check it[2]
With swords and bayonets.
“Their foreign ‘Board of Customs,’[3]
Past our laws’ reach, they say,
Here pluck from us their living,
As vultures from their prey.
Ah! would we keep our freedom,
We must not basely yield,
But claim our rights,[4] as when of old
The Stamp Act was repeal’d.”