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Let every clime to Freedom dear

Listen with a joyful ear.

With equal skill and godlike power,

He governs in the fearful hour

Of horrid war; or guides, with ease,

The happier times of honest peace.

Firm—united, etc.

Behold the chief who now commands,

Once more to serve his country stands,—

The rock on which the storm will beat,