And Science, and her sister Poesy,

Shall clothe in light the fields and cities of the Free.

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“Their feast was such as Earth, the general Mother,

Pours from her fairest bosom, when she smiles

In the embrace of Autumn—to each other

As when some parent fondly reconciles

Her warring children, she their wrath beguiles

With her own sustenance; they, relenting, weep—

Such was this Festival, which, from their isles,