Now a sad tale we hiive to tell: + 

A few miles east, in Blenheim swamp, + 

So cruel slain was young Benwell, + 

Whose body lay ’mong snow and damp. + 

He was a well-bred English youth, + 

Hoping to own Canadian farm, + 

But his countryman devoid of truth, + 

He did plot his deadly harm. + 

Sad fate, the world did appal, + 

That he by bullet thus should die; + 

Fired by protended friend, Birchall, + 

Who swung for it on gallows high. + 