The blacksmith Lount, he active was
Both spears and swords to make,
And General Duncombe hoped that soon
Fort Malden he might take.
Mackenzie to mail-robbing took—
A most delightful trade
For one who every blackguard art
Erstwhile had well essayed.
And when he got three hundred men,
All brave ones as himself,
He then marched to Toronto town
To see and gain some pelf.
Their gallant deeds and gallant acts
I’m sure I need not tell,
How full four hundred armed men
Ran from the College bell.
Nor how full thirty men at least
Did one old man attack,
Nor dared to fight him face to face,
But shot him in the back.
How good Sir Frank a flag of truce
With Rolph and Baldwin sent
Unto the rebel camp, to ask
Them what was their intent;
And how they (prompted by the twain)
Declared ’twas their intention
To settle all the State affairs
By General Convention.
And then Toronto in a blaze
They threatened for to set,
But nearer than Montgomery’s
They ne’er to it could get.
’Twas on the seventh of that month
Which we do call December,
Sir Francis Head led out his men,—
That day we’ll long remember.
And then ’twas glorious fun to see
What rabble rout could do,—
They every man took to his heels,
The word was, Sauve qui peut.