Can name to thee the very man who Rahl the Hessian slew.
Thee knows where Newbold’s Island stands? Thee ought. Yes, that is true;
The English Farm has nigh it stood since sixteen-eighty-two.
Thee knows the old stone farm-house looking out upon the tide
Slantwise across the river on the Pennsylvany side?
In that house I was born and bred, and lived till twenty-one,
As all the Comforts had for years, from father unto son.
That year my father rode up here and bought this farm for me;
For Issachar he lived at home, and we could not agree.
He leaned too much on his birthright, so father to us said,