... and brown breeches. And now I've clos'd my epic strain, I tremble as I show it, Lest this same warrio-drover, Wayne, Should ever catch the poet. The last canto was published on the day when Andre was captured at Tarrytown. At the end of the autograph copy was written the following stanza, in a neat hand: When the epic strain was sung, The poet by the neck was hung; And to his cost he fin...