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POETICAL ADDRESS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEff RECITED GENERAL LAFAYETTE
On the 19th October, 1824. IN the name of our country, great Hero
we come To welcome thee here on this day of thy glory; And we hail
thee with music of cannon and drum, On these plains once with
battle disfigured and gory; "Where the flame of thy sword, and the
flash of thy eye, Victory's path through the clouds of the conflict
illumed, When Liberty's banner, displayed in the sky, Proclaimed
that her foe to discomfit was doomed. Thy presence, like that of
some guest from above Descended to minister blessings on earth,
Enkindles the fervours of reverence and love Wherever the patriot
emotions have birth; But, here, on this glorious arena of Fame, Too
feeble is language?our voices too faint? The transports that gush
through our breasts to proclaim; No muse can depict them?no pencil
can paint.? When the tempest of Tyranny hung on our shore, And the
peals of its vengeance our continent shook; When the white robes of
Freedom were dripping with gore, And she drooped as though Hope had
her bosom forsook? Thy gallant young heart, with an ardour divine,
A devotion as pure as e'er hallowed the soul, Vowed to yield the
last throb of its pulse at her shrine, Or see her the standard of
triumph unrol.? Columbia behold here the champion whose vow, Thus
solemnly made, on this spot was fulfilled Here, a branch of that
laurel still green on his brow He plucked, where the blood of the
foeman was spilled. No bankrupt in character, fortune, or friends?
No ambitious, or venal, adventurer was he; No pang of affliction
the heart strings that rends, Forced him o'er the wide billows for
solace to flee. With the golden dominion of wealth at command, And
arrayed in...
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