Philip Morin Freneau Quote

Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.


To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw. Compare: "When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatched the spear, but left the shield", Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Introduction to canto iii.


Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield.

Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield.

Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield.

Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield.