<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB", sans-serif; background-color: white;">Eutaw Springs</span><span style="font-size: 26pt; font-family: "Berlin Sans FB", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div><div>Author unknown</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;">At Eutaw Springs the valiant died;</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Their limbs with dust are covered o'er --</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide;</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">How many heroes are no more!</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">If in this wreck or ruin, they</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Can yet be thought to claim a tear,</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">O smite your gentle breast, and say</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">The friends of freedom slumber here!</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Thou, who shalt trace this bloody plain,</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">If goodness rules thy generous breast,</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Sigh for the wasted rural reign;</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Sign for the shepherds, sunk to rest!</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Stranger, their humble graves adorn;</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">You too may fall, and ask a tear;</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">'Tis not the beauty of the morn</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">That proves the evening shall be clear.</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">They saw their injured country's woe;</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">The flaming town, the wasted field;</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">They took the spear -- but left the shield.</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Led by thy conquering genius, Greene,</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">The Britons they compelled to fly;</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">None distant viewed the fatal plain,</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">None grieved, in such a cause to die --</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">But, like the Parthian, famed of old,</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Who, flying, still their arrows threw,</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">These routed Britons, full as bold,</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Retreated, and retreating slew.</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Now rest in peace, our patriot band,</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">Though far from nature's limits thrown,</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">We trust they find a happier land,</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(60, 69, 161);">A brighter sunshine of their own</span>.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 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