Hamilton Fish Armstrong, ed. The Book of New York Verse. 1917.
Stanzas Occasioned by Lord Bellamonts, Lady Hays, and Other Skeletons Being Dug up in Fort George, N. Y., 1790 (abridged)Philip Freneau
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Where shall our mouldering bones be laid—
What care can shun—(I ask with tears)
The shovels of succeeding years!
Not even in forts he rests secure:—
Time dims the splendours of a crown,
And brings the loftiest rampart down.
(With which no ivory can compare)
Like these (that once were Lady Hay’s)
May serve the belles of future days.
Away we haste to vaulted walls:
Some future whim inverts the plain,
And stars behold our bones again.