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While we to flames our slaughter'd<br />

friends bequeath,<br />

From the red field their scatter'd<br />

bodies bear,<br />

And nigh the fleet a funeral structure<br />

rear;<br />

So decent urns their snowy bones<br />

may keep,<br />

And pious children o'er their ashes<br />

weep.<br />

Here, where on one promiscuous<br />

pile they blazed,<br />

High o'er them all a general tomb<br />

be raised;<br />

Next, to secure our camp and naval<br />

powers,<br />

Raise an embattled wall, with l<strong>of</strong>ty<br />

towers;<br />

From space to space be ample gates<br />

around,<br />

For passing chariots; and a trench<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>ound.

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