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Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;

They took the spear, but left the shield.[443:4]

To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw.

Footnotes

[443:3] This line was appropriated by Campbell in "O'Connor's Child."

[443:4]

When Prussia hurried to the field,

And snatched the spear, but left the shield.

Scott: Marmion, Introduction to canto iii.

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