INSCRIPTION II.

For a COLUMN at NEWBURY.

  Art thou a Patriot Traveller? on this field

  Did FALKLAND fall the blameless and the brave

  Beneath a Tyrant's banners: dost thou boast

  Of loyal ardor? HAMBDEN perish'd here,

  The rebel HAMBDEN, at whose glorious name

  The heart of every honest Englishman

  Beats high with conscious pride. Both uncorrupt,

  Friends to their common country both, they fought,

  They died in adverse armies. Traveller!

  If with thy neighbour thou should'st not accord,

  In charity remember these good men,

  And quell each angry and injurious thought.

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