StoryTitle("caps", "General Joseph Warren's Address") ?>
SubTitle("caps", "June 17, 1775") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(156, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stand! the ground's your own, my braves! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will ye give it up to slaves?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will ye look for greener graves? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Hope ye mercy still? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What's the mercy despots feel? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hear it in that battle peal! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Read it on yon bristling steel! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Ask it, ye who will. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fear ye foes who kill for hire? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will ye to your homes retire? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Look behind you! they're afire! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And, before you, see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who have done it! From the vale ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On they come!—and will ye quail? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Leaden rain and iron hail", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Let their welcome be! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the God of battles trust! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Die we may, and die we must;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, oh, where can dust to dust ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Be consigned so well", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As where heaven its dews shall shed ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the martyred patriot's bed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the rocks shall raise their head. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Of his deeds to tell?", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "—JOHN PIERPONT") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>