[9] Some versions show the following stanzas at this point:
Who heard the thunder of the fray
Break o'er the field beneath,
Knew well the watchword of that day
Was "Victory or Death."
Long had the doubtful conflict raged
O'er all that stricken plain,
For never fiercer fight had waged
The vengeful blood of Spain;
And still the storm of battle blew,
Still swelled the gory tide;
Not long, our stout old chieftain[10] knew,
Such odds his strength could bide.
'Twas in that hour his stern command
Called to a martyr's grave
The flower of his beloved land,
The nation's flag to save.
By rivers of their fathers' gore
His first-born laurels grew,
And well he deemed the sons would pour
Their lives for glory too.
Full many a norther's breath has swept
O'er Angostura's plain,[11]
And long the pitying sky has wept
Above its mouldered slain.
The raven's scream, or eagle's flight,
Or shepherd's pensive lay,
Alone awakes each sullen height
That frowned o'er that dread fray.
Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground,
Ye must not slumber there, et cetera.
[10] Gen. Zachary Taylor.
[11] Near Buena Vista.
[12] A complete list of the club's publications is: John Filson, by R. T. Durrett (1884); The Wilderness Road, by Thomas Speed (1886); The Pioneer Press of Kentucky, by W. H. Perrin (1888); Life and Times of Judge Caleb Wallace, by W. H. Whitsitt (1888); An Historical Sketch of St. Paul's Church, by R. T. Durrett (1889); The Political Beginnings of Kentucky, by J. M. Brown (1889); The Centenary of Kentucky, by R. T. Durrett (1892); The Centenary of Louisville, by R. T. Durrett (1893); The Political Club of Danville, Kentucky, by Thomas Speed (1894); The Life and Writings of Rafinesque, by R. E. Call (1895); Transylvania University, by Dr. Robert Peter (1896); Bryant's Station, by R. T. Durrett (1897); The First Explorations of Kentucky, by J. S. Johnston (1898); The Clay Family, by Z. F. Smith and Mrs. Mary R. Clay (1899); The Battle of Tippecanoe, by Alfred Pirtle (1900); Boonesborough, by G. W. Ranck (1901); The Old Masters of the Bluegrass, by S. W. Price (1902); The Battle of the Thames, by B. H. Young (1903); The Battle of New Orleans, by Z. F. Smith (1904); History of the Medical Department of Transylvania University, by Dr. Robert Peter (1905); Lopez's Expeditions to Cuba, by A. C. Quisenberry (1906); The Quest for a Lost Race, by Dr. T. E. Pickett (1907); Traditions of the Earliest Visits of Foreigners to North America, by R. T. Durrett (1908); Sketches of Two Distinguished Kentuckians, by J. W. Townsend and S. W. Price (1909); The Prehistoric Men of Kentucky, by B. H. Young (1910); The Kentucky Mountains, by Miss Mary Verhoeff (1911). No publication was issued in 1912.
[13] Copyright, 1893, by the Filson Club.