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lo all our pomp of yesterday is one with nineveh and tyre
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o caledonia stern and wild meet nurse for a poetic child
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stout glo'ster stood aghast in speechless trance to arms cried mortimer and couched his quiv'ring lance
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edward lo to sudden fate half of thy heart we consecrate
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but oh what solemn scenes on snowdon's height descending slow their glittering skirts unroll
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her eye proclaims her of the briton line her lion-port her awe-commanding face attempered sweet to virgin-grace
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the verse adorn again fierce war and faithful love and truth severe by fairy fiction drest
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in buskined measure move pale grief and pleasing pain with horror tyrant of the throbbing breast
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my heart's in the highlands my heart is not here my heart's in the highlands a-chasing the deer chasing the wild deer and following the roe
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rudely plucked from their hiding never a word they spoke last of the dwarfish folk
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and honor a little thing i would gladly sell the secret quoth the pict to the king
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take him o king and bind him and cast him far in the deep and it's i will tell the secret
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[james graham marquis of montrose was executed in edinburgh may for an attempt to overthrow the commonwealth and restore charles ii
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come stand behind my knee i hear the river roaring down toward the wintry sea
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not all their troops of trampling horse not all the rebels in the south had borne us backward then
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how dismal 'tis to see the great tall spectral skeleton the ladder and the tree
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like a bridegroom from his room came the hero from his prison to the scaffold and the doom
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oh why left i the land where my forefathers sleep
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hark the timid turning treadle crooning soft old-fashioned ditties to the low slow murmur of the brown round wheel
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my land that has no peer in all the sea for verdure vale or river flower or leaf if first to no man else thou'rt first to me
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o cruel fate wilt thou never replace me in a mansion of peace where no perils can chase me
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o my sad heart long abandoned by pleasure why did it dote on a fast-fading treasure
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yet all its sad recollections suppressing one dying wish my lone bosom can draw erin an exile bequeaths thee his blessing
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why rest with babes and slaves seek higher the place of race and age
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quebec thy storied citadel attest in burning song and psalm how here thy heroes fell
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wake and behold how night is done how on thy breast and o'er thy brow bursts the uprising sun
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oh no more grand must be the german's fatherland
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is it switzerland or tyrols tell the land and people pleased me well
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ah austria surely it must be so rich in fame and victory
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forth in the van man by man swing the battle-sword who can
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like the thunder of god makes our heart beat fast thou in the theatre lov'st to appear where trills and quavers tickle the ear
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forth in the van man for man swing the battle-sword who can
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a voice resounds like thunder-peal 'mid dashing waves and clang of steel the rhine the rhine the german rhine
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long they lay within my dwelling through the chilling winds of winter in my dwelling-place for ages
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some call me cold and some demure and if thou hast ever guessed that so i love thee
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i could not try the woman's trick between us straightway fell the blush which kept me separate blind and sick
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flags wave drums beat and unawares you flash your souls out with the guns and take your heaven at once
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dear god when italy is one and perfected from bound to bound
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what then if love's delight must end at least we'll clear its truth from flaws
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o fair young mother on thy brow shall sit a nobler grace than now
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humanity with all its fears with all the hopes of future years is hanging breathless on thy fate
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in spite of rock and tempest's roar in spite of false lights on the shore sail on nor fear to breast the sea
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you cannot shrink from the test rise men of the north and west
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you must meet them then breast to breast on men of the north and west
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to where the blood-stream blots the green strike to defend the gentlest sway that time in all his course has seen
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the despot roves your fairest lands and till he flies or fears your sheaves be sheaves of spears
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what hope o god would not grow warm when thoughts like these give cheer
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before thy throne we bow o god our shield be thou from treason's rage
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our pilgrim fathers sleep the ocean broad and deep beside their graves
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let liberty arise her glory fill the skies the world be free
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to arms to arms to arms in dixie
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lo all the beacon-fires are lighted let all hearts be now united
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if the loved ones weep in sadness victory soon shall bring them gladness to arms
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for freedom is its own eternal law it makes its own conditions and in storm or calm alike fulfils the unerring will
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for ever in thine eyes o liberty shines that high light whereby the world is saved and though thou slay us we will trust in thee
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be patient o be patient though yet our hopes are green the harvest-field of freedom shall be crowned with the sunny sheen
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no in ourselves their souls exist a part of ours
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and murder sullies in heaven's sight the sword he draws what can alone ennoble fight
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and place our trophies where men kneel to heaven but heaven rebukes my zeal
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a prowling wolf whose shaggy skin hid little but his bones once met a mastiff dog astray
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what's that he cries oh nothing but a speck
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a speck ay ay: 'tis not enough to pain me perhaps the collar's mark by which they chain me
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it ought to be a precious price which could to servile chains entice for me i'll shun them while i've wit
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for vengeance rouse ye romans rouse ye slaves
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shrine of the mighty can it be that this is all remains of thee
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these waters blue that round you lave o servile offspring of the free pronounce what sea what shore is this
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hereditary bondsmen know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow
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greece change thy lords thy state is still the same thy glorious day is o'er but not thy years of shame
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where burning sappho loved and sung where grew the arts of war and peace where delos rose and phoebus sprung
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earth render back from out thy breast a remnant of our spartan dead
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what silent still and silent all
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hark rising to the ignoble call how answers each bold bacchanal
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the tyrant of the chersonese was freedom's best and bravest friend that tyrant was miltiades
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slaves cannot breathe in england if their lungs receive our air that moment they are free they touch our country and their shackles fall
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and when we come to london wall we'll shout with it in view 'come forth come forth ye cowards all
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make way for liberty he cried made way for liberty and died
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yet though destruction sweep these lovely plains rise fellow-men our country yet remains
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sarmatia fell unwept without a crime found not a generous friend a pitying foe strength in her arms nor mercy in her woe
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hark hark what myriads bid you rise
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to arms to arms ye brave
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to arms to arms ye brave etc
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o liberty can man resign thee once having felt thy generous flame
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art thou from tuscany brother and seest thou dreaming in pain thy mother stand in the piazza searching the list of the slain
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faint with that strain of heart she moved on then to another stern and strong in his death and dost thou suffer my brother
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holding his hands in hers: out of the piedmont lion cometh the sweetness of freedom sweetest to live or to die on
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flag of the brave thy folds shall fly the sign of hope and triumph high
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where breathes the foe but falls before us with freedom's soil beneath our feet and freedom's banner streaming o'er us
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and where is that band who so vauntingly swore that the havoc of war and the battle's confusion a home and a country should leave us no more
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o thus be it ever when freemen shall stand between their loved homes and the war's desolation
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on every hill they lie on every field of strife made red by bloody victory
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the lights on brimming crystal fell drawn sparkling from the rivulet head and mossy well
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the new is old the old is new the cycle of a change sublime still sweeping through
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though the cause of evil prosper yet 'tis truth alone is strong and albeit she wander outcast now i see around her throng troops of beautiful tall angels to enshield her from all wrong
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[footnote a: arousing of anti-slavery agitation when it was proposed in congress to abolish the missouri compromise and throw open the territories to slavery if their people should so vote
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and every bondman's chain be broke and every soul that moves abroad in this wide realm shall know and feel
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[footnote a: fremont's proclamation of martial law in missouri in august declaring free all slaves of rebels was received with ardor by the north but annulled by president lincoln as premature
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a brave man's part without the statesman's tact and taking counsel but of common sense to strike at cause as well as consequence
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you may seek her crew on every isle but out of their rest no charm can wile jason and orpheus and hercules
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loud and long that all may hear ring for every listening ear of eternity and time
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let us kneel god's own voice is in that peal and this spot is holy ground
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