...eight of the great argument than did the men of rhyme. Here and there the struggle inspired a brisk ballad like Francis Hopkinson's , a Hudibrastic satire like Trumbull's , or a patriotic song like Timothy Dwight 's . Freneau painted from his own experience the horrors of the British prison-ship, and celebrated, in cadences learned from Gray and Collins, the valor of the men who fell at Eutaw Springs. The...