Of children left without a parent’s care.

Within these ramparts, by fam’d Vauban made,

Where hapless youths for Freedom learn to weep,

On beds of humble straw, till morning laid,

The brave and dauntless Sons of Neptune sleep.

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An Elegy

Wrote under a Gallows.

Dun-vested Twilight now along the sky,