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PJ.781.012
23 May 1781:32 (1393)
The following anecdote may be relied on: At the battle of
Guilford, on the 15th of March last, Col. Lovelace, of the
British guards, finding himself in danger when attacked by
the second Maryland regiments with charged bayonets, threw
himself down among the dead . . . A correspondent addresses
the following lines to him on that occasion:
Hail gallant chieftain! whose renowned name,
Without a rival fills the trump of fame;
Whose matchless fears shall sine in glory's page,
Thyself the wonder of th'applauding age;
Whose praise is chanted by that heav'nly choir,
Where Phoebus with the muses tunes his lyre;
. . . [20 lines]
While mimick heroes tread the buskin'd stage,
Be thou the living Falstaff of the age.
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