... The self-made peer had sure been there, But that the peer was drunk. But turn we to the Hudson's banks, Where stood the modest train, With purpose firm, though slender ranks, Nor cared a pin for Wayne . For then the unrelenting hand Of rebel fury drove, And tore from ev'ry genial band Of friendship and of love. And some within a dungeon's gloom, By mock tribunals laid, Had waited long a cruel ...