A MILITARY DESCRIPTION OF THE SECOND
EXCURSION TO MALSIS HALL,
THE RESIDENCE OF JAMES LUND, ESQ.

I remember perusing when I was a boy,
The immortal bard—Homer’s siege of old Troy;
So the Malsis encampment I’ll sing if you will,
How our brave army bivouced on the plains o’ Park hill.

Near the grand Hall o’ Malsis our quarters we toke,
When Lieutenant-col. Don Frederick spoke,
Commanding his aide-camp Colonel de Mann,
To summons and muster the chiefs o’ the clan.

Majors Wood, Lamb, and Pollard came up to the lines,
Each marching their companies up to the nines;
The twirlers an’ twisters the knights o’ the coil,
An’ spuzzers an’ sorters fell in at the roll.

The light-infantry captains wer Robin and Shack,
And the gallant big benners the victuals did sack;
Captain Green he commanded the Indigo troop,
These Beer Barrel chargers none with them can cope.

The amazon army led on by Queen Bess,
Each feminine soldier so grand was her dress,
Though they chatted and pratted, twor pleasant to see
Them laughing and quaffing their hot rum an’ tea.

There wor music to dainties and music to wine,
An’ for faar o’ invaders no hearts did repine;
Although a dark cloud swept over the plain,
Yet our quarter wor sheltered from famine an’ rain.

Drum-Major Ben Rushworth and Bandmaster Master Wright,
Drank to each other wi’ pleasure that night;
We’d full-flowing bumpers, we’d music an fun,
From the larder an’ cellar o’ Field-Marshall Lund.

Private Tom Berry got into the hall,
When a big rump o’ beef he made rather small;
An’ Flintergill Billy o’ the Spuzzer’s Brigade,
Got his beak in the barrel, an’ havock he made.

The Field Marshall declared and his good lady too,
They ne’er was attacked wi’ so pleasant a foe;
With this all the clansmen gave them three cheers,
In return they saluted the bold Bucaneers.