"Great Sirs! King James advanced to the Finn,
And there's a question where he'll enter in;

At Clady-ford At Lifford or Castlefin?
To guard these passes and secure this ground,
Is the great topic I do propound!

To Clady-ford, 5,000 men they send,
To guard the Ford and broken bridge defend.

Sir Arthur Roydon's Horse and Foot were there;
Of all the Army, the best troops they were.

With 3,000 men at Castlefin and a strong detail of Foot at Lifford;
The strong passage of the river, soon they blocked.

But the enemy successfully carried the last passage,
And drove the Williamites out.

Mornay, Clady impounded, for an arch of the bridge was broken,
And the Donegal end secured with a ford.

But, the river in flood, and up that side, King James's men stood.
Upon a hill, that covered all the flood.

From whence, they fired, smartly upon our men.
Drawn up on the other side of the plain.

This galled our troops; the Foot began to fly;
Marmot to pass the squadron sends;
Of his best horse, Mornay, the pass defends.

Major Nangle, who led the Irish force,
dropped in the water, from his horse.

And many a valiant Trooper, floating lay,
Which the slow river, scarce could bear away.

Thus, he opposed the foe, till all his own forsook the field,
And left him all alone."

Anonymous