Philip Morin Freneau was an American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor sometimes called the "Poet of the American Revolution".
“Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.”
To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw. Compare: "When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatched the spear, but left the shield", Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Introduction to canto iii.
“The hunter and the deer a shade.”
The Indian Burying-Ground. This line was appropriated by Thomas Campbell in O'Connor's Child.
