Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;

They took the spear, but left the shield.

Philip Freneau (1752-1832): To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw.

When Prussia hurried to the field,

And snatch'd the spear, but left the shield.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Marmion. Introduction to Canto iii.

March to the battle-field,

The foe is now before us;

Each heart is Freedom's shield,

And heaven is shining o'er us.

B. E. O'Meara (1778-1836): March to the Battle-Field.

I have a soul that like an ample shield

Can take in all, and verge enough for more.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Don Sebastian. Act i. Sc. 1.