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Conclusion
Descendants of the Puritans! whose fameShall brighter grow with every coming age,
See that ye tarnish not their honest name,
But add new lustre to the historic page;
Yours are the Church and State for which they fled
Their father land, and sought this distant shore;
For which in after times they fought and bled,
And every want and every suffering bore;
In their free spirit still your rights maintain
'Gainst every secret, every open foe;
The laws of God above all laws sustain,
And in your minds and hearts His precepts know;
Till earth, restored from error and from sin,
Her great Millennial Day of Love and Peace begin!
Poem No. 99; c. 1878—80
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