Posted by Kathy_S on March 27, 2009 at 03:05:33 user kschmid.
In Reply to: burghers of Carlisle posted by Ed Kiser on March 27, 2009 at 02:52:35:
It's from Macaulay's 'The Armada.' The words are available at http://www.bartleby.com/41/570.html.
Somehow it doesn't stick in my mind the way Casabianca does, but that may be because I haven't an equivalent of
"The boy stood on the burning deck
Eating peanuts by the peck."