Katherine Tryon Shepherd-Smith

“ Rest after battle; relief from the sound
Of war's cruel din; its carnage and woe.
"Hereafter" he said, "let younger men go
"When the order comes, calling to arms"
But short the respite; Soon fresh alarms!
Then Washington's plea that he take command
On the Hudson's rugged, east-bound land.
There on distant Peekskill heights he died;
Where his body had long rested, beside
That beautiful river, from the north,
In whose brave defense he last went forth.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1928. ”

“ No beacon light gleamed over the way
Seth Pomeroy's lonely journey lay.
But the fearsome darkness hardly awes
This veteran of colonial wars,
Who at Cape Breton, Crown Point, "Fort Ti,"
Braved perils great, with spirits high. ”

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