Give ear;—hill, vale and forest listeners are;
Force to each word their faithful echoes lend,
And with their Ruler’s prayers their own ascend.
“Mysterious Power! who dost in wonders speak,
We note thy tokens and their import spell;
Let Persecution still its vengeance wreak—
Let its fierce billows roll with mountain swell,
Here must we Anchor, and their force repel.
Here, more securely, shall our bannered State