You never struck your flag to us; you'll go to England free.'[43]
'Twas the sixth day of October, Seventeen-hundred-seventy-nine,
A year when nations ventured against us to combine,
Quebec was burned and Farmer slain, by us remembered not;
But thanks be to the French book wherein they're not forgot.
And you, if you've to fight the French, my youngster, bear in mind
Those seamen of King Louis so chivalrous and kind;
Think of the Breton gentlemen who took our lads to Brest,
And treat some rescued Breton as a comrade and a guest.”
This poem is specially to be commended because it is another example of the finer qualities which are developed in war.[44]