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What! 't is the signal! start so soon,
And through the Santee swamp so deep,
Without the aid of friendly moon,

And we, Heaven help us! half asleep!
But courage, comrades! Marion leads,
The Swamp Fox takes us out to-night;
So clear your swords and spur your steeds,
There's goodly chance, I think, of fight.

We follow where the Swamp Fox guides, We leave the swamp and cypress-tree, Our spurs are in our coursers' sides,

And ready for the strife are we. The Tory camp is now in sight,

And there he cowers within his den; He hears our shouts, he dreads the fight, He fears, and flies from Marion's men.

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Of wailing sweetness fills the saddening sky; The sister stars, lamenting in their pain That one of the selectest ones must die, Must vanish, when most lovely, from the rest!

Alas! 't is ever thus the destiny.

Even Rapture's song hath evermore a tone Of wailing, as for bliss too quickly gone. The hope most precious is the soonest lost, The flower most sweet is first to feel the frost.

Are not all short-lived things the loveliest ? And, like the pale star, shooting down the sky,

Look they not ever brightest, as they fly From the lone sphere they blest!

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