Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1911 — Oriskany. [ARTICLE]

Oriskany.

(Aug. 6, 1777.) This is the field; this pathway leads To that bright hill of green, There is the marsh, the tangled weeds .That skirt the deep' ravine. ' Here stood the flank on one dread day When thunder filled the air; And rose the shout o’er mountains grays “The King and St. Leger!” They fell—the sons of years gone by, In wood and ambuscade; And few men read in history The brave defense they made. - • i 4>’. For that was seven score distant years; The summer breezes stir, K And deck with rows of grassy spears. The grave of Herkimer. Nor shines the glare of war’s red brand? By fort and and town; Hut there was sorrow in the land When that good man went down. Soft echo sends his battle cry Across that valley fair; And yet the bending pine- trees sigh: “The King and St. Leger!’’ ’ ‘ —J. J. Meehan.