But we heard a shout in distance—into fluttering existence,
Brief but splendid, quickly ended, at the sound our hopes awoke.
’Twas our kinsmen armed and ready, sweeping steady to the nor’ward,
Pressing forward fleet and fearless, though in scanty force they came—
Cried De Rouville, grimly speaking, “Is’t our captives you are seeking?
Well, with iron we environ them, and wall them round with flame.
“With the toil of blood we won them, we’ve undone them with our bravery;
Off to slavery, then, we carry them or leave them lifeless here.
Foul my shame so far to wander, and my soldiers’ blood to squander
’Mid the slaughter free as water, should our prey escape us clear.