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Hail, happy day, when, smiling like the morn,
Fair Freedom rose New-England to adorn:
The northern clime beneath her genial ray,
Dartmouth, congratulates thy blissful sway:

В старину чернокожих не ценили,
Красавиц черных не было в веках.
И полукровка блеснуть бессильна,
Но черный оценили при свечах.
Их красота все так же безымянна,

I
From heavy dreams fair Helen rose,
And eyed the dawning red:"Alas, my love, thou tarriest long
O art thou false or dead

My father, he was a mountaineer,
His fist was a knotty hammer;
He was quick on his feet as a running deer,
And he spoke with a Yankee stammer

Взгляни в грань чистейшего отражения,
Пора принять вердикт главного решения.
Либо прозябать и любоваться отражением,
Иль миру плод дать с твоим изображением.
Так, как сосуд ты матери единокровной,

Our Mr
Jiggs was certainly an estimable youth,
A pillar of propriety, a champion of truth;
He had a good position in a warehouse in the town;

It is true, that even in the best-run state Such things will happen; it is true,
What’s done is done
The law, whereby we hate Our hatred, sees no fire in the flue But by the smoke, and not for thought alone It punishes, but for the thing...