Our money as freemen, not slaves, we will give!
| [8] | In the copies of this song printed during the Revolution the last stanza is altered. In the Pennsylvania Chronicle, which we have examined, it is printed— This bumper I crown for our sovereign’s health, And this for Britannia’s glory and wealth, etc. |
Soon after the passage of the stamp act many patriotic lyrics appeared in various parts of the country, one of the best of which is the following, by Doctor Prime, of New York, the author of “Muscipula sive Cambromyomachia,” a satire, and of several other poems of considerable merit.
A SONG FOR THE SONS OF LIBERTY.
In story we’re told,
How our fathers of old
Brav’d the rage of the wind and the waves;
And cross’d the deep o’er,