A Military Song
This song was more completely titled: A Military Song, By The Army, On General Washington's Victorious Entry Into The Town Of Boston.
A Miltary Song was written as part of Hugh Henry Brackenridge's drama, Bunker's Hill.
Some of its verses are as follows:
Sons of valour, taste the glories, ~ Of Celestial Liberty, ~ Sing a Triumph o'er the Tories, ~ Let the pulse of joy bear high.
Heaven this day hath foil'd the many ~ Fallacies of George their king, ~ Let the echo reach Britan'y, ~ Bid her mountain summits ring.
See yon Navy swell the bosom, ~ Of he late enraged sea, ~ Where e'er they go we shall oppose them, ~ Sons of valour must be free.
Should they touch at fair Rhode-Island, ~ There to combat with the brave, ~ Driven, from each hill, and high-land, ~ They shall plough the purple wave.
To Carolina or to Georg'y, ~ Should they next advance their fame, ~ This land of heroes shall disgorge the ~ Sons of tyranny and shame.
Like Satan banished from Heaven, ~ Never see the smiling shore, ~ From this land so happy, driven, ~ Never stain its bosom more.
War, fierce war, shall break their forces; ~ Nerves of Tory men shall fail, ~ Seeing Howe, with alter'd courses, ~ Bending to the Western gale.
Thus from every bay of ocean ~ Flying back with sails unfurl'd, ~ Toss'd with ever-troubled motion, ~ They shall quit this smiling world.
