Were they real once, or are they mere phantasms?
Did they live and die once?
Did they love each other as true brothers, and loyal gentlemen?
Can we hear their voices in the past?
Sure I know Harry's, and yonder he sits in the warm summer evening, and reads his young brother's simple story: "It must be owned that the provinces are acting scurvily by his Majesty King George II., and his representative here is in a flame of fury.
Virginia is bad enough, and poor Maryland not much better, but Pennsylvania is worst of all.

We pray them to send us troops from home to fight the French; and we promise to maintain the troops when they come.

We not only don't keep our promise, and make scarce any provision for our defenders, but our people insist upon the most exorbitant prices for their cattle and stores, and actually cheat the soldiers who are come to fight their battles.

No wonder the General swears, and the troops are sulky.

The delays have been endless.