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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 349 (search)
now, if John mayn't Jonathan style, Coward, He may hint Stripes and Stars were better lowered From that tall height to which, till now, their flagstaff towered.“ Punch nibbed his pen, all jubilant, for galling-- When suddenly a weight weighed down the feather, And a red liquid, drop by drop, slow falling, Came from the nib; and the drops rolled together, And steamed, and smoked, and sung--“Not ink, but blood; Drops now, but soon to swell into a flood, Perchance e'er Summer's leaf has burst Spring's guarding bud. “Blood by a brother's hand drawn from a brother-- And they by whom 'tis ta'en, by whom 'tis given, Are both the children of an English mother; Once with that mother, in her wrath, they've striven; Was't not enough, that parricidal jar, But they must now meet in fraternal war? If such strife draw no blood, shall England scoff therefore? “If she will laugh, through thee, her chartered wit, Use thou no ink wherewith to pen thy scoff; We'll find a liquor for thy pen more fit