Show f CROSSES I file DELAWARE VARE I I December 1776 I SyL CLINTON T THA HAT HA T right night upon the De Delaware Delaware Delaware- Th Their ir horns the wild wid blew As though the legions of despair Swept th the Impending heavens 4 through Th Tha Fates and Furies rode the air That night upon the Delaware arc The ice ice p ck gnawed the sodden s Sundered and ard rocked the middle str m There ran a m murmuring through the ranks As at some dread foreboding dream Amid the crunch of splintering planks Tho rho pack ice gnawed the sodden banks The trees seemed wan v and wizened v ghosts And groped the mists with shriveled hands Weird was vas that gathering of hosts The massing of those tattered bands On those inhospitable coasts The trees seemed wan and wizened ghosts I I Yet valorous their victory That gray and grim December n I dawn dmn What quenchless fires of destiny Burned in his breast who led them on For us and for futurity How valorous their victory New New York American |