CASTLE WILLIAM
Where Buttermilk Channel doth seek to beguile
Diffident margins of Governor’s Isle,
There is a fortress all bastioned and chill,
Known to the army as old “Castle Bill.”
There are occasions when soldiers may smile;
Not in that castle on Governor’s Isle;
Not in the cloisters where sentries abound;
Not where a gun butt leaps up from the ground.
Oh! There are many—the old cannoneers,