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PEP.775.058
2 Sep 1775:3921 (1/96)
From the London Evening Post of June 20.
Funeral Oration, to the surviving relations and friends of
our deceased brethren, who fell bravely at the late action
in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, gloriously sacrificing
their lives in defence of the legal and constitutional
rights of America.
[2 long paragraphs on the deaths of the British soldiers]
There the brave youth, with love of virtue fir'd,
Who greatly in his country's cause expir'd,
Shall know he conquer'd. The firm patriot there,
Who made the welfare of mankind his care;
Tho' still by faction, vice, and fortune crost,
Shall find the gracious labour was not lost.
Cato
[signed] Hystaspes.
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