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LXXXI.
BUNKER HILL MONUMENT.
The record should be made of each great deed,That brings unnumbered blessings for its fruits,
So, that, while gazing on the vigorous shoots,
Our children may possess the generous seed;
Nor, aught forgetting of the glorious past,
Lay good foundations in the future's womb;
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The emulous son shall still defend his tomb!
Thus chronicled, the mighty deed begets
Still mightier,—and the column that mounts high,
Where brave souls met to conquer or to die,
Speaks histories the good son ne'er forgets,
And joys if he can emulate! Thus stand,
Gray, granite speaker, still, to glad and guide the land.
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