William McCarty, comp. The American National Song Book. 1842.
Address to Cornwallis on Leaving VirginiaFrom the Freeman’s Journal, or North American Intelligencer, April 17, 1782
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In health and safety to thy native shore:
There seek Burgoyne, and tell him, though too late,
You blamed unwisely his unhappy fate:
Tell your deluded monarch that you see
The hand of Heaven upraised for liberty:
Tell your exhausted nation, tell them true,
They cannot conquer those who conquer’d you.