Which Freedom with her magic wand

Hath touch’d, to clothe with bloom, and bless

With peace, and joy, and plenteousness.

The rains have ceas’d—the struggling glare

Of sunset lights the misty air,

The fierce wind sweeps the myriad throng

Of broken ragged clouds along,

From the rough saw-mill, where hath rung

Through all the hours, its grating tongue,

The raftsman sallies, as the gray