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I / Warriors and chiefs! should the shaft or the sword / Pierce me in leading the host of the Lord, / Heed not the corse, though a King's, in your path: / Bury your steel in the bosoms of Gath!
II / Thou who art bearing my buckler and bow, / Should the soldiers of Saul look away from the foe, / Stretch me that moment in blood at thy feet! / Mine be the doom which they dared not to meet.
III / Farewell to others, but never we part, / Heir to my Royalty-Son of my heart! / Bright is the diadem, boundless the sway, / Or kingly the death, which awaits us to-day!
Seaham, 1815.