Of Freedom laid;

They lit the lights

Here, with God's aid,

Secured their rights.

Who wrought with toil

Their freehold here;

Hallowed the soil.

And without fear.

[Pg 3]

[Pg 3]

II.

II.

Yea; here, from men like these, Our country had its stanch beginning; Hence sprang she with the ocean breeze And pine scent in her hair; Deep in her eyes the winning, The far-off winning of the unmeasured West; And in her heart the care, The young unrest, Of all that she must dare, Ere as a mighty Nation she should stand Towering from sea to sea, From land to mountained land, One with the imperishable beauty of the stars In absolute destiny; Part of that cosmic law, no shadow mars, To which all freedom runs, That wheels the circles of the worlds and suns Along their courses through the vasty night, Irrevocable and eternal as is Light.

[Pg 4]

[Pg 4]

III.

III.

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