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, The tanner took his way, The calf shall rue that is unborn The jumbling of that day.And Wayne descending steers shall know, And tauntingly deride, And call to mind, in ev'ry low, The tanning of his hide.Yet Bergen cows still ruminate Unconscious in the stall, What mighty means were used to get, And lose them after all.For many heroes bold and brave From New Bridge and Tapaan. And those that drink Passaic's wave, And those that eat soupaan.And sons of distant Delaware, And still remoter Shannon, And Major Lee with horses rare, And Proctor with his cannon.All wondrous proud in arms they came— What hero could refuse, To tread the rugged path to fame, Who had a pair of shoes?At six the host, with sweating buff, Arrived at Freedom's Pole, When Wayne, who thought he'd time enough, Thus speechified the whole: “O ye whom glory doth unite, Who Freedom's cause espouse, Whether the wing that's doom'd to fight, Or that to drive the cows; “Ere yet you tempt your further way, Or into action co<