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Page 77 - LJERE'S the spot. Look around you. Above on the height Lay the Hessians encamped. By that church on the right Stood the gaunt Jersey farmers. And here ran a wall — You may dig anywhere and you'll turn up a ball.
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Page 78 - Marched up with Knyphausen, they stopped on their way At the " farms," where his wife, with a child in her arms, Sat alone in the house. How it happened none knew But God — and that one of the hireling crew Who fired the shot ! Enough ! — there she lay, And Caldwell, the chaplain, her husband, away ! Did he preach — did he pray ? Think of him as you stand By the old church to-day, — think of him and...
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