—Joseph Warren, “Boston Massacre.”
Thou know’st, great son,
The end of war’s uncertain, but this certain,
That if thou conquer Rome, the benefit
Which thou shalt thereby reap in such a name
Whose repetition will be dogg’d with curses;
Whose chronicle thus writ: “The man was noble,
But with his last attempt he wiped it out,
Destroy’d his country, and his name remains
To the ensuing age abhorred.”