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Table of Contents: Cover Page Dedication Introduction "America" "Christmas Hymn" "Lines on the Death of J. Quincy Adams" "To Cinque" "New Year's Hymn" "To A.H." "Love" "How Long" "The Arch Apostate" "The Misanthropist" "A Hymn" "Yes! strike again that sounding string" "To -------" "Prayer of the Oppressed" "To S.A.T." "Delusive Hope" "To M.E.A." "A Hymn" "Self-Reliance" "Ode for the Fourth of July" "Midnight Musings" "Ode to Music" "Stanzas for the First of August" "The North Star" (text of all poems) |
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ANOTHER year has passed away, And brings again the glorious day When Freedom from her slumber woke, And broke the British tyrant’s yoke --- Unfurled her standard to the air, In gorgeous beauty, bright and fair --- Pealed forth the sound of war’s alarms, And called her patriot sons to arms!
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To meet the mercenary band, And drive them from their native land. Almighty God! grant us, we pray, The self-same spirit on this day, That, through the storm of battle, then Did actuate those patriot men!
May those great truths which they maintained
May that same God whose aegis led |
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But only by that Sacred Word, The mandate of Almighty God.
Our cause is Love, our weapon Truth,
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