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The root of thine oak , O , my country ! that staticfe Rock-planted , and flourishing free ; It ' s branches are stretched over far-distant lands / And its shadow eclipses the sea : The blood of our ancestors nourished the tree :
From their tombs , from their ashes it sprung ; It ' s boughs with their trophies are hung ; Their spirit dwells on it j and , hark ! for it spoke j . The voice of our fathers ascetfds from their oak .
For ages and ages with barbarous foes , The Saxon , Norwegian , and Gaul : We wrestled ., were foiled , were cast down , but we rose > With new vigor , new life from each fall . By all we were conquered ^ we conquered them all !
*— The cruel , the cannibal mind , We softened , subdued , and refined ; Bears , wolves , and sea-monsters , they rushed from their Am * We taught them , we tamed them , we turned them to men i Love led the wild hordes in his flower-woven bands , The tenderest , the strongest of chains J Love married our hearts , he united our hands , And mingled the blood in our veins : One race we became : on the mountains and plains .
Where the wounds of our cotintry were dosed , The ark of religion reposed , Th ' unquenchable altar of liberty blazed , And the temple of Justice in mercy was raised .
Ark , altar , and temple we left with our breath , To our children ,, a sacred bequest ! *" O , guard them ! O , keep them , in life and in deatE I So the shades , of your fathers shall rest , And your spirits with our ' s be in Paradise blest ! — Let ambition , the sin of the brave , And avarice , the soul of a slave , No longer seduce your affections to roam , From liberty , justice , religion , at home ! K
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article nr . Poems on Different Occasions , by Charlotte Richardson . To which is prefixed , some Account of the Author , by the Editor , Catharine Cappe . Printed for the Benefit of the Author . 12 mo . Johnson , 5 s , 1 S 00 .
The author of these poems , though destitute of many of those advantages which we are in the habit of considering essential , or at least highly conducive to excellence of character , seems possessed of every quality requisite to excite the interest , the sympathy , and the esteem of the virtuous and candid reader . If in the perusal of these pieces literary taste be not so highl y
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& 8 O Richardson ' s Poems .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/44/
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