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172
OWED TO FRANKLIN STATUE.
Read at the Franklin Statue Dinner at Delmonico's,
A. D., 1872.
Grate statur! Immense, gigantic Franklyn,
Made of brass! We reverential bow,
And skrape, and in thy presents stand
With heds uncuvered. We give thee glory—praze,
And smash our Dunlap hats and kry
Thy glory to you shining Star!
Grate, noble sire! and yet, of liberty a Sun
Who cam'st to Herald freedom and a press unchained—
Who took'st thy Post with patriots round
The Standard of thy kuntry's struggling braves,
And wrote thyself a Tribune to the startled World.
Thou noble ded!—and yet knot ded, but quick
In lasting brass—the Express image of thy anshunt self,
A tranquil Witness to the wond'ring Globe,
That honist werth shall not eskape reward!
Grate statur! Immense, gigantic Franklyn,
Made of brass! We reverential bow,
And skrape, and in thy presents stand
With heds uncuvered. We give thee glory—praze,
And smash our Dunlap hats and kry
Thy glory to you shining Star!
Grate, noble sire! and yet, of liberty a Sun
Who cam'st to Herald freedom and a press unchained—
Who took'st thy Post with patriots round
The Standard of thy kuntry's struggling braves,
And wrote thyself a Tribune to the startled World.
Thou noble ded!—and yet knot ded, but quick
In lasting brass—the Express image of thy anshunt self,
A tranquil Witness to the wond'ring Globe,
That honist werth shall not eskape reward!
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