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Hail sacred Peace who claim'st thy bright abode	A
Mid circling saints that grace the throne of God	B
Before his arm around the shapeless earth	C
Stretch'd the wide heavens and gave to nature birth	C
Ere morning stars his glowing chambers hung	D
Or songs of gladness woke an angel's tongue	D
Veil'd in the brightness of the Almighty's mind	E
In blest repose thy placid form reclined	E
Borne through the heavens with his creating voice	F
Thy presence bade the unfolding worlds rejoice	F
Gave to seraphic harps their sounding lays	G
Their joys to angels and to men their praise	G
From scenes of blood these beauteous shores that stain	H
From gasping friends that press the sanguine plain	H
From fields long taught in vain thy flight to mourn	I
I rise delightful Power and greet thy glad return	J
Too long the groans of death and battle's bray	K
Have rung discordant through the unpleasing lay	K
Let pity's tear its balmy fragrance shed	L
O'er heroes' wounds and patriot warriors dead	L
Accept departed Shades these grateful sighs	M
Your fond attendants to the approving skies	M
And thou my earliest friend my Brother dear	N
Thy fall untimely wakes the tender tear	O
In youthful sports in toils in blood allied	P
My kind companion and my hopeful guide	P
When Heaven's sad summons from our infant eyes	M
Had call'd our last loved parent to the skies	M
Tho' young in arms and still obscure thy name	Q
Thy bosom panted for the deeds of fame	Q
Beneath Montgomery's eye when by thy steel	R
In northern wilds the lurking savage fell	S
'Yet hapless youth when thy great leader bled	L
Thro' the same wound thy parting spirit fled	L
But now the untuneful trump shall grate no more	T
Ye silver streams no longer swell with gore	T
Bear from your beauteous banks the crimson stain	H
With yon retiring navies to the main	H
While other views unfolding on my eyes	M
And happier themes bid bolder numbers rise	M
Bring bounteous Peace in thy celestial throng	U
Life to my soul and rapture to my song	U
Give me to trace with pure unclouded ray	K
The arts and virtues that attend thy sway	K
To see thy blissful charms that here descend	V
Through distant realms and endless years extend	V
To cast new glories o'er the changing clime	Q
The Seraph now reversed the flight of time	Q
Roll'd back the years that led their course before	T
And stretch'd immense the wild uncultured shore	T
The paths of peaceful science raised to view	W
And show'd the ascending crouds that useful arts pursue	W
As o'er the canvass when the master's mind	E
Glows with a future landscape well design'd	E
While gardens vales and streets and structures rise	M
A new creation to his kindling eyes	M
He smiles o'er all and in delightful strife	X
The pencil moves and calls the whole to life	X
So while the great Columbus stood sublime	Q
And saw wild nature clothe the trackless clime	Q
The green banks heave the winding currents pour	T
The bays and harbours cleave the yielding shore	T
The champaigns spread the solemn groves arise	M
And the rough mountains lengthen round the skies	M
Through all the scene he traced with skillful ken	Y
The unform'd seats and future walks of men	Y
Mark'd where the fields should bloom and streamers play	K
And towns and empires claim their peaceful sway	K
When sudden waken'd by the Angel's hand	Z
They rose in pomp around the cultured land	Z
In western wilds where still the natives tread	L
From sea to sea an inland commerce spread	L
O'er the dim streams and thro' the gloomy grove	A2
The trading bands their cumberous burdens move	B2
Where furrs and skins and all the exhaustless store	T
Of midland realms descended to the shore	T
Where summer's suns along the northern coast	C2
With feeble force dissolve the chains of frost	D2
Prolific waves the scaly nations trace	E2
And tempt the toils of man's laborious race	E2
Though rich Peruvian strands beneath the tide	P
Their rocks of pearl and sparkling pebbles hide	P
Lured by the gaudy prize the adventurous train	H
Plunge the dark deep and brave the surging main	H
Whole realms of slaves the dangerous labours dare	O
To stud a sceptre or emblaze a star	F2
Yet wealthier stores these genial tides display	K
And busy throngs with nobler spoils repay	K
The hero saw the hardy hosts advance	G2
Cast the long line and aim the barbed lance	G2
Load the deep floating barks and bear abroad	H2
To each far clime the life sustaining food	I2
While growing swarms by nature's hand supplied	P
People the shoals and fill the exhaustless tide	P
Where southern streams thro' broad savannahs bend	V
The rice clad vales their verdant rounds extend	V
Tobago's plant its leaf expanding yields	J2
The maize luxuriant clothes a thousand fields	J2
Steeds herds and flocks o'er northern regions rove	A2
Embrown the hill and wanton thro' the grove	A2
The wood lands wide their sturdy honours bend	V
The pines the live oaks to the shores descend	V
Along the strand unnumber'd keels arise	M
The huge hulls heave and masts ascend the skies	M
Launch'd in the deep o'er eastern waves they fly	K2
Feed every isle and distant lands supply	K2
Silent he gazed when thus the guardian Power	L2
These works of peace awhile adorn the shore	T
But other joys and deeds of lasting praise	G
Shall crown their labours and thy rapture raise	G
Each orient realm the former pride of earth	C
Where men and science drew their ancient birth	C
Shall soon behold on this enlighten'd coast	C2
Their fame transcended and their glory lost	D2
That train of arts that graced mankind before	T
Warm'd the glad sage or taught the Muse to soar	T
Here with superior sway their progress trace	E2
And aid the triumphs of thy filial race	E2
While rising crouds with genius unconfined	E
Through deep inventions lead the astonish'd mind	E
Wide o'er the world their name unrivall'd raise	G
And bind their temples with immortal bays	G
In youthful minds to wake the ardent flame	Q
To nurse the arts and point the paths of fame	Q
Behold their liberal sires with guardian care	O
Thro' all the realms their seats of science rear	N
Great without pomp the modest mansions rise	M
Harvard and Yale and Princeton greet the skies	M
Penn's ample walls o'er Del'ware's margin bend	V
On James's bank the royal spires ascend	V
Thy turrets York Columbia's walks command	Z
Bosom'd in groves see growing Dartmouth stand	Z
While o'er the realm reflecting solar fires	M2
On yon tall hill Rhode Island's seat aspires	M2
O'er all the shore with sails and cities gay	K
And where rude hamlets stretch their inland sway	K
With humbler walls unnumber'd schools arise	M
And youths unnumber'd sieze the solid prize	M
In no blest land has Science rear'd her fane	H
And fix'd so firm her wide extended reign	H
Each rustic here that turns the furrow'd soil	N2
The maid the youth that ply mechanic toil	N2
In freedom nurst in useful arts inured	O2
Know their just claims and see their rights secured	O2
And lo descending from the seats of art	P2
The growing throngs for active scenes depart	P2
In various garbs they tread the welcome land	Z
Swords at their side or sceptres in their hand	Z
With healing powers bid dire diseases cease	Q2
Or sound the tidings of eternal peace	Q2
In no blest land has fair Religion shone	R2
And fix'd so firm her everlasting throne	R2
Where o'er the realms those spacious temples shine	S2
Frequent and full the throng'd assemblies join	T2
There fired with virtue's animating flame	Q
The sacred task unnumber'd sages claim	Q
The task for angels great in early youth	U2
To lead whole nations in the walks of truth	U2
Shed the bright beams of knowledge on the mind	E
For social compact harmonize mankind	E
To life to happiness to joys above	V2
The soften'd soul with ardent zeal to move	B2
For this the voice of Heaven in early years	W2
Tuned the glad songs of life inspiring seers	X2
For this consenting seraphs leave the skies	M
The God compassionates the Saviour dies	M
Tho' different faiths their various orders show	Y2
That seem discordant to the train below	Y2
Yet one blest cause one universal flame	Q
Wakes all their joys and centres every aim	Q
They tread the same bright steps and smoothe the road	A
Lights of the world and messengers of God	B
So the galaxy broad o'er	L2

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