Poem Fredoniad

The Fredoniad:

Invocation

...In consequence of the calamities at Raisin, offensive operations are deferred until the return of Spring....

The scene is laid at the above-mentioned place.

The time is about ten months: from the commencement of the War, June 18th, 1812, until the Spring of 1813. From the time the Essex enters Valparaiso, till the day of Battle, is forty-six hours.

A sample of verses:

On the same morn of the disastrous day,

Which wrapp'd the martyrs in their robes of clay,

Shelby commanded Croghan from his rest,

And him, like father to a son, address'd:

Thy youthful warriors marshal, and proceed

To strengthen Lewis at his pressing need.

His heart, all anxious, palpitates with pain

To meet the foe, progressing on the plain.