New Century Speaker and Writer: Being a Standard Work on Composition and Oratory

by Henry Davenport Northrop

Morgan’s rifles, fiercely flashing, thin the foe’s retreating ranks,

And behind them, onward dashing, Ogden hovers on their flanks.

Fast they fly, those boasting Britons, who in all their glory came,

With their brutal Hessian hirelings to wipe out our country’s name.

Proudly floats the starry banner; Monmouth’s glorious field is won;

And, in triumph, Irish Molly stands besides her smoking gun.

William Collins.

DOUGLAS TO THE POPULACE OF STIRLING.