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62

Now see what deeds the coming days await,
Ere heav'n shall seal the finish'd book of fate.
Full soon the sons of anarchy will urge
The sister-states to dissolution's verge;
Rending the feeble ties with frantic hand,
No hope of safety for our suff'ring land;
Till Washington, with fed'ral patriots rise,
And draw more close th' indissoluble ties;
To constituted pow'rs new strength afford,
Nor war, nor feuds, nor time shall break the triple cord.
 

Alluding to the legislative, executive and judicial powers. A three-fold cord is not easily broken.

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