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The rocky nook with hilltops three	A
Looked eastward from the farms	B
And twice each day the flowing sea	A
Took Boston in its arms	B
The men of yore were stout and poor	C
And sailed for bread to every shore	D
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And where they went on trade intent	E
They did what freemen can	F
Their dauntless ways did all men praise	G
The merchant was a man	F
The world was made for honest trade	H
To plant and eat be none afraid	H
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The waves that rocked them on the deep	I
To them their secret told	J
Said the winds that sung the lads to sleep	I
'Like us be free and bold '	-
The honest waves refused to slaves	K
The empire of the ocean caves	K
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Old Europe groans with palaces	L
Has lords enough and more	D
We plant and build by foaming seas	M
A city of the poor	C
For day by day could Boston Bay	N
Their honest labor overpay	N
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We grant no dukedoms to the few	O
We hold like rights and shall	P
Equal on Sunday in the pew	O
On Monday in the mall	Q
For what avail the plough or sail	R
Or land or life if freedom fail	R
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The noble craftsman we promote	S
Disown the knave and fool	T
Each honest man shall have his vote	S
Each child shall have his school	T
A union then of honest men	U
Or union never more again	U
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The wild rose and the barberry thorn	V
Hung out their summer pride	W
Where now on heated pavements worn	V
The feet of millions stride	W
	-
Fair rose the planted hills behind	X
The good town on the bay	N
And where the western hills declined	X
The prairie stretched away	N
	-
What care though rival cities soar	D
Along the stormy coast	Y
Penn's town New York and Baltimore	D
If Boston knew the most	Y
	-
They laughed to know the world so wide	W
The mountains said 'Good day	N
We greet you well you Saxon men	U
Up with your towns and stay '	-
The world was made for honest trade	H
To plant and eat be none afraid	H
	-
'For you ' they said 'no barriers be	A
For you no sluggard rest	Z
Each street leads downward to the sea	A
Or landward to the west '	-
	-
O happy town beside the sea	A
Whose roads lead everywhere to all	Q
Than thine no deeper moat can be	A
No stouter fence no steeper wall	Q
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Bad news from George on the English throne	A2
'You are thriving well ' said he	A
'Now by these presents be it known	A2
You shall pay us a tax on tea	A
'Tis very small no load at all	Q
Honor enough that we send the call	Q
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'Not so ' said Boston 'good my lord	B2
We pay your governors here	C2
Abundant for their bed and board	B2
Six thousand pounds a year	D2
Your Highness knows our homely word	E2
Millions for self government	F2
But for tribute never a cent '	-
	-
The cargo came and who could blame	G2
If Indians seized the tea	A
And chest by chest let down the same	G2
Into the laughing sea	A
For what avail the plough or sail	R
Or land or life if freedom fail	R
	-
The townsmen braved the English king	H2
Found friendship in the French	I2
And honor joined the patriot ring	H2
Low on their wooden bench	I2
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O bounteous seas that never fail	R
O day remembered yet	J2
O happy port that spied the sail	R
Which wafted Lafayette	J2
Pole star of light in Europe's night	K2
That never faltered from the right	K2
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Kings shook with fear old empires crave	L2
The secret force to find	X
Which fired the little State to save	L2
The rights of all mankind	X
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But right is might through all the world	M2
Province to province faithful clung	N2
Through good and ill the war bolt hurled	M2
Till Freedom cheered and joy bells rung	N2
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The sea returning day by day	N
Restores the world wide mart	O2
So let each dweller on the Bay	N
Fold Boston in his heart	O2
Till these echoes be choked with snows	P2
Or over the town blue ocean flows	P2
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Let the blood of her hundred thousands	Q2
Throb in each manly vein	R2
And the wits of all her wisest	S2
Make sunshine in her brain	R2
For you can teach the lightning speech	T2
And round the globe your voices reach	T2
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And each shall care for other	U2
And each to each shall bend	V2
To the poor a noble brother	U2
To the good an equal friend	V2
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A blessing through the ages thus	W2
Shield all thy roofs and towers	X2
GOD WITH THE FATHERS SO WITH US	W2
Thou darling town of ours	X2

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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