The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1839-05-22
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Sons or New ENGLAND, let us now survey
Two centuries passed and gone, the glorious day
When your brave sires, determined to be free,
In shallow blrqucS launched on the acklesS sea-.
When anxious friends, and aged parents dear,
hung on each neck, and shed the parting tear:
When tender children, and heroic wives
10 stormy seas, commit their future lives:
With one accord, TO view their home no more,
But boldly venture for an unknown shore.
What hearts Of steel, 10 leave their native isles
To plant an empire in Columbian wllds!
Not lust for gold but liberty they crave,
Through climes tempestuous cut the azure wave
IN empire destiny attend that shore
On which their lltle barques we're doomed to moor
Whose lender sides the seeds Of Empire held
And broadly scattered DER a fruitful field.
Friendess and weak the tender germ began,
But ere long rpen'd into perfect man
The savage foe, at first was taught 10 feel,
The rising temper Of their vengeful steel
Zach head, each arm, sustain d the common cause
And as their conquest, spread their fame and laws
ihe sylvan war, the brawny arm began,
And falling forests own'd the power Of man,
And rising yerduTe, 10 reward his toll
Spread health and plenty round grateful soil.
Towns rose spontaneous DER the subject plain
By river side, or margin OF the main,
And infant commerce, high her wings diSplayd
To pierce the various avenues OF trade:
And fruitful waves that lash the sounding shore,
Yield to adventurous skill their inny store
The hardy sire, TO brave the ocean wild,
Took from his mothers arms the tender child
The future seaman,-by his care 10 form,
Rockd on The bilows cradpd in the storm -
Dauntless through life his destiny to roam,
The sea, his calling, and the ship his home;
His country'S pride-to drive the briny car,
Her wealth in commerce, and her strength in war
Then Neptune'strident, rear'd by slow degrees
In Youthful vfgOr marches DER the seas;
And seeds OF future navieS, here unfurld
Their little sails, 10 guard the western world.
Like the small acorn scatterd on the plain,
Where summer dcws 81 showers, expandihe grain,
And solar beams beneath a burning sky,
BY daily turns, the genial warmth supply =
Above, below, the kindred parts disieud,
Wide spread the branches, as the roots descend
The fruitful earth the swelling sap supplies,
The various head, in Regal splendourS rise;
III the broad forests. own their Soyregas reign,
w no towers alon, and overlookS the plain.
Such was Columbia, hid behind the wave,
Destin'd TO rescue Freedom from the grave
To light the torch that sets the world on fire,
And bids the many, of the few, enquire
BY what mysterious right, each land they SWAY
Or by what charm the multitude obey
lier bright example, oe'r the ocean bore
By western gales, to sumbring Europe's shore;
Kouses each Patriot, 10 assert the cause
VI sacred liberty, and equal laws.
VOW roundthe world she spreads lasting fame.
ana distant Nations echo back her name
Supplanied are her little barques Of yore.
by giant ships who visit evry shore:
adventurous DER each cline, her sons engage
To yoke the golden with the Iron age.
Now mighty navies e'er the ocean sveep.
land artificial thunderS awe the decp,)
meet the coming foe with outstretchd arm.
ana shield The Nation from impending harm.