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.

Philip Morin Freneau Quotes

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.