Date: 1772-1781, 1781
"But, if thy faint springs / Refuse this large supply, steel thy firm soul / With stoic pride"
preview | full record— Mason, William (1725-1797)
Date: 1787
"But when by various wrongs your bosom's steel'd, / Your groaning country calling to the field, / And 'twixt the foe and you the uncertain scale / Of fight must shew whose fortune shall prevail"
preview | full record— Pye, Henry James (1745-1813)