Forbid it Heaven! while we retain
One note of Freedom’s glorious strain.
THE BIRTH OF FREEDOM, JULY 4, 1776.
(An Ode.)
The die is cast,
Whether for good or ill,
Let no regrets our anxious bosom fill;
The Rubicon is passed,
Nailed are our colors to the mast,
A truce to doubting or unmanly fear;