Freedom, as every schoolboy knows, Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell; On every wind, indeed, that blows I hear her yell
She screams whenever monarchs meet, And parliaments as well, To bind the chains about her feet And toll her knell
And w...
As sweet as the look of a
Saluting the eyes of a
That blossom to blue as the
Is ablush to the glances above her,
Thou shalt no God but me adore: 'Twere too expensive to have more
No images nor idols make For Roger Ingersoll to break
Take not God's name in vain: select A time when it will have effect
Work not on Sabbath days at all, But go to s...
Of life's elixir I had writ, when sleep(Pray Heaven it spared him who the writing read
)Settled upon my senses with so deepA stupefaction that men thought me dead
The centuries stole by with noiseless tread,
Like spectres in the twi...
You may say if you please,
Johnny Bull, that our
Are crazy to marry your dukes and your earls;
But I've heard that the maids of your own little
OD dreamed—the suns sprang flaming into place,
And sailing worlds with many a venturous race
He woke—His smile alone illumined space
Thy flesh to earth, thy soul to God, We gave,
O gallant brother;
And o'er thy grave the awkward squad Fired into one another
An inept political general,
I dreamed I stood upon a hill, and, lo
The godly multitudes walked to and
Beneath, in Sabbath garments fitly clad,
With pious mien, appropriately sad,
Megaceph, chosen to serve the
In the halls of legislative debate,
One day with his credentials
To the capitol's door and announced his name
Judge Sawyer, whom in vain the people
To push from power, here is laid aside
Death only from the bench could ever
The sluggish load of his immortal part
What
"Out of danger
" Can the slighted
Or canting Pharisee no more defame
The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homewards plods;
I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key
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