And mark them, as we find them!
We mark the wretch, where’er he be,
Who’s false to the land that bore him;
We’ll mark the knave who swears he’s free,
Yet brooks a traitor o’er him!
And more than all, we’ll mark the men
Whose traitorous inclination
Would rivet foreign chains again
O’er Freedom’s chosen nation!
When strangers sought Columbia’s shore,