National Lyrics
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217970464
Paperback|9780217970464
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LINE a. 21 LINES, WRITTEN ON READING THE MESSAGE OP GOVERNOR RITNER, OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1836. 'TIHANK God for the token ? one lip is still free ? J One spirit untrammelled ? unbending one knee Like the oak of the mountain, deep-rooted and firm, Erect, when the multitude bends to the storm; When traitors to Freedom, and Honor, and God, Are bowed at an Idol polluted with blood; When the recreant North has forgotten her trust, And the lip of her honor is low in the dust, ? Thank God, that one arm from the shackle has hroken Thank God, that one man, as a. freeman has spoken O'er thy crags, Allegheny, a blast has been blown Down thy tide, Susquehanna, the murmur has gone To the land of the South ? of the charter and chain ?- Of Liberty sweetened with Slavery's pain; Where the cant of Democracy dwells oh the lips Of the forgers of fetters, and wielders of whips Where chivalric honor means really no more Than scourging of women, and robbing the poor Where the Moloch of Slavery sitteth on high, And the words which he utters are ? Worship, Or Die Right onward, oh, speed it Wherever the blood Of the wronged and the guiltless is crying to God; Wherever a slave in his fetters is pining; Wherever the lash of the driver is twining; Wherever from kindred, torn rudely apart, Comes the sorrowful wail of the broken of heart; Wherever the shackles of tyranny bind, In silence and darkness, the God-given mind; There, God speed it onward ? its truth will be felt ? The bonds shall be loosened ? the iron shall melt And oh, will the land where the free soul of Pens: Still lingers and breathes over mountain and glen ? Will the land where a Benbzet's spirit went forth To the peeled, and the meted, and outcast of Earth ? Where the wor...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217970464 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021797046X |
| Weight | 0.35 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.24 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 100 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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