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Sung at the celebration of the First Anniversary of the kidnapping, at Boston, of Thomas Sims, a fugitive slave:—the kidnapping done under the forms of law, and by its officers, 12 June 1851. The deed celebrated at the Melodeon, Boston, 12 June 1852.
BY REV. JOHN PIERPONT.
Souls of the patriot dead,
On Bunker’s height who bled!
The pile, that stands
On your long-buried bones,—
Those monumental stones,—