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Along Assunpink's woody bank we left our camp-fires bright, / While like a fox with padded feet we stole away by night; / Cornwallis watched his Trenton trap, / And drained his glass, and took his nap; / But the ragged troops of Washington outflanked him in the night --
Up and away for Princeton, / By a secret road to Princeton --