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For a COLUMN at NEWBURY.

Art thou a Patriot Traveller? on this fieldDid Falkland fall, the blameless and the brave,Beneath a Tyrant's banners: dost thou boastOf loyal ardor? Hambden perish'd here,The rebel Hambden, at whose glorious nameThe heart of every honest EnglishmanBeats high with conscious pride. Both uncorrupt,Friends to their common country both, they fought,They died in adverse armies. Traveller!If with thy neighbour thou should'st not accord,In charity remember these good men,And quell each angry and injurious thought.
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