Downing legends : stories in rhyme / J. W. DeForest [electronic text]

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De Forest, John William, 1826-1906

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New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor

1901

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"Downing legends : stories in rhyme / J. W. DeForest [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE8878.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

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XLIII

  Our hero smiled with satisfaction, But promptly turned his thoughts to action. He rang the bells, convened the city, And made a speech, a loan, a treaty; Then, striking out some Yankee notion (Unknown to us) of crossing ocean, He turned his back on plans of slaughter And journeyed home with gun and daughter. 

Thus fortuned it that Shiloh's hero Reduced no Hessian states to Zero, But hammered ploughshares from his sabre And settled down to farming labor. Ah, who could trust the weird narration If Downing did not mean a nation, Our Yankee wit and brawn and bravery, Our hate of Beelzebub and slavery! 