It was written upon small folio paper. The poem is entitled

THE cow CHASE. Canto I.

To drive the kine one summer's n The tanner* took his way ;

The calf shall rue, that is unborn, The yumbling of that day.

And Wayne descending steers sliall know

And tauntingly deride, And call to mind, in every low,

The tanning of his liide.

Yet IJergen cows still ruminate

Unconscious in the stall, What mighty means were used to get

And lose them after all.

For many heroes bold and brave

From New Bridge and Tapaan, And those that drink Passaic's wave,

And those that eat soupaan ; t

And sons of distant Delaware,

And still remoter Shannon, And Major Lee with horses rare.

And Proctor with his cannon ; t

All wondrous proud in arms they cam? --

What hero could refuse. To tread the rugged path to fame,

Wlio had a pair of shoes ?

At six the host, with sweating buff,

Arrived at Freedom's Pole, When Wayne, who thought he'd time enough,

Thus speechified the whole :

' O ye whom glory doth unite.

Who Freedom's cause espouse. Whether the wing that's doomed to fight,

Or tliat to drive the cows ;

* This is in allusion to the supposed business of General Wayne, in early life, who, it was said, was a tanner. He was a surveyor.

t A common name for hasty-pudding, made of the meal of maize or Indian com.

t Major Harry Lee was cormuander of a corps of light horseman, and Colonel Proctor was at the liead of a coq)s of artillery.