English poem
Colonel Richmond's Regiment
by Samuel Niles (1743–1804)
Richmond, with other Colonels we find, Active in War, of Hostile make & mind, Push't on with Courage, bold, as him became, 'Mongst Thirty of our Chiefs, has got a Name.
Pitts his Lieutenant, acts the Martial part, Victorious stands, but by Deaths fatal dart, * He fell constrain'd in that grand point to yield, With all brave victors when they've won the field In gloomy shades, he lies, conceal'd from sight, Who 'scap'd the fury of our Foes in Fight.
And Major Hodges, much Lamented o're, Not suffer'd to arrive at Native Shore. Cast into Seas, amidst the briny Waves, Where multitudes do meet, with their untimely graves.
Tho' * Captain Bosworth did to's Country come, Expir'd, by Sickness in his Travels home. And * Captain Prat, or'e whom his Friends do mourn, Expires at home, soon after his Return.
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