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We'll search the earth, the air, the sea,
To cut a gallant WREATH for THEE!
And every field for Freedom fought,
And vale, and shore, and mount, where aught
Of Liberty could ere be found,

Shall be our blooming harvest ground.
From victor's arch, from martyr's pall

Triumphal or funereal,

For law, and equal rights, and life,
Who won or fell in holy strife

In garlands, Laurels hang upon
Thermopylae and Marathon;
And on Philippi's fatal field,

The Cypress mourns thy broken shield.
On Runymede the blooming Rose,
On Bannockburn the Thistle grows;
And on the banks of Boyne its leaves
Green Erin's Shamrock wildly weaves;
Though prostrate now, brave Poland's Oak
To tyrants bent not till it broke;
In France, in sunny France we'll get
The Fleur-de-Lis and Violet,

From consecrated mound and vale

Of Huguenot and Liberal.

Old Bunker Hill and Yorktown's shore
Will yield green Bays till time's no more,
And Sea-Grass and the Corals grow
Below Atlantic Seas, below

The waves of Erie and Champlain,
In rostral trophies round the slain.
Tobacco's pungent leaves proclaim.
That Indians nought but death could tame,
Of martyr'd men a continent,
Stern Freedom's mighty monument.
The Cactus thrives in Mexico;
Colombia bears the Cacao;

Swart Hayti's stubborn isle supplies
Its Palm-tree towering towar'd the skies;
On sad Bengal's ensanguin'd plains,
The ancient Banyan yet remains;
In Italy and Hungary,

The Vine in air spread clusters free;
O'er all, uprears th' encrested Dove,
Her Olive, pledge of Peace and Love.

Aye, may the CHAPLET flourish bright,
Reflecting like the heavens thy light;
With glory, aye thy brow be bound,
With glory, aye thy head be crown'd,
While Earth, and Air, and Sky, and Sea,
Yield up their glorious WREATH to THEE!

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J. W. Jarvis, pins 1805.

J. R. Ames, del

L'HOMME DES DEUX MONDES.

BORN AT THETFORD, ENGLAND, JAN. 29, (o. s.) 1737.
DIED AT GREENWICH, NEW-YORK, JUNE 8, 1809.

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