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Poetry: The Spring Of Liberty

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
May
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
Poem
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All Ktll! sweet Spring., delighlful guest, VVilh jy I ee tliee come; The woods and plains n groen tre dresl, And VVinter'ts in nis lonib. D.imo Nature sprints to life ajrnin, And greeis the kind return; ■But for ihv nuJ slie must rcmain, Embosomed in lier urn. The lawn Í3 deok'd with lovely fl.nvers, Of 'nrious kinds and Inies, Wliich (ift are waslied in geifitïé plibwcripj Or s'.ill more petitie de. Thc'ir odorssweot m z pltyr'd wing-, A'O to our ftijieèi borne, Theirbosoms illel wüh honey sprints, All clieer us in tlieirturn. 'J'hc of the grovo, Kxprcss in tuneful Inyp, Jn Nwoet rnelodi.nis ii'jtos of It.vc, The loken of thy pniue. 5'J hail t lic Sriag of JLibcrty, I'lie hnd poucr to cirnc, And kill the mi nstcr SJImory, Ainl h'irl hiai to tJo Xouib. O come and slied th tr.rlting my, On Sl.nyery'H frcaion S'i,l; Jixposed to lifzht fie'll E'O nway, Ad leúvtf beiitnd tliespoi.l. Til" siwj of thy vwtorimis power Tliis KfeW vv-flrld II nrHiiufi-; J'm Miro the traiisail.ini ie sliorr-, Wil! echo back tl sound. The voico of j y, of -pence, nnd love, Wül from pole to pok', Tliroiighdit thccnrll; ik! lic-avcn ahove - 'Twill gladden rvery boh)J O whftt nglorioii? sprmjj 'twiil hr - I long Ktee ii comí?, AViien 11 the ít.b ot'm"n ure freo And Slavery't in his tomb.