Citation - New Hampshire Gazette-Portsmouth: 1775.09.05

NHG-P.775.049
5 Sep 1775:23 (985) 
Palmira's prospect, with her tumbling walls,
Huge piles of ruin heap'd on ev'ry side,
From each beholder, tears of pity calls,
Sad monuments extending far and wide.
Yet far more dismal to the patriot's eye,
The drear remains of Charlestown's former show,
Behind whose walls did hundred warriors, die,
And Britain's centre felt the fatal blow.
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