A Pathetic Ballad
BEN BATTLE was a soldier bold,
  And used to war’s alarms;
But a cannon-ball took off his legs,
  So he laid down his arms.

Now as they bore him off the field,
  Said he, “Let others shoot;
For here I leave my second leg,
  And the Forty-second Foot.”

The army-surgeons made him limbs:
  Said he...