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BY WM. WALLACE, AUTHOR OF “JERUSALEM,” “STAR LYRA,” ETC.
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Yes, Freedom! Tyrants date thy splendid birth
With those uprisings in the bloody Past,
When all the lion-hearted of the earth
Unfurl’d their rebel-banners to the blast,
And from their limbs the dungeon-fetter cast;
But thou, Oh, idol of the brave! was’t born,
In full-grown majesty, upon that morn