Shrieked loud defiance from his shore.
Hance had a mother, poor and old,
A simple, harmless village dame,
Who crowed and clapped as people told
Of Winterbottom's rising fame.
She said, "I'll be upon the spot
To see my Tommy's sabre-play";
And so she left her leafy cot,
And walked to Dover in a day.
Pierre had a doting mother, who