. American war ballads and lyrics: a collection of the songs and ballads of the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the civil war . -,We swoopd his flanking batteries past,And braving full their murderous blast,Stormd home the towers of Monterey. Our banners on those turrets wave, And there our evening bugles play:Where orange-boughs above their graveKeep green the memory of the braveWho fought and fell at Monterey. We are not many—we who pressd Beside the brave who fell that day—But who of us has not confessdHe d rather share their warrior restThan not

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. American war ballads and lyrics: a collection of the songs and ballads of the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the civil war . -,We swoopd his flanking batteries past,And braving full their murderous blast,Stormd home the towers of Monterey. Our banners on those turrets wave, And there our evening bugles play:Where orange-boughs above their graveKeep green the memory of the braveWho fought and fell at Monterey. We are not many—we who pressd Beside the brave who fell that day—But who of us has not confessdHe d rather share their warrior restThan not have been at Monterey ?. BUENA VISTA. [By some strange oversight, this fine ballad appears innone of the popular collections. So far ns the editor candiscover, indeed, it exists nowhere in print except in avolume privately printed by General Pike some years ago,and to his courtesy the editor is indebted for the copyfrom which the piece is here reproduced.—Editor.]

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