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America.
I.
NEW ENGLAND MEMORIES.
Four names of honour mark a week of light,—Names of high place on history's noblest scroll,—
And through the ages as they onward roll
Shall shine like stars in azure vault of night:
First, he who told the tale of tyrant might
That urged the quest of sad Evangeline;
The sage who fearless wrought in Truth's deep mine,
Seeking the Law that orders all things right;
The poet-friend whose clarion voice was heard,
A call to freedom for the toiling slave;
And he whose story many a heart has stirred
To keep the track of statesmen wise and brave;
We may not meet again, yet still the past
For me shall live as long as life shall last.
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