Gazette Of The United States

NEW-YORK, JUNE 20, 1789.

A FEDERAL SONG.

For the Anniversary of AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.

To the tune of "Rule BRITANNIA."

I.

YE friends to this auspicious day!

Come join the fed'ral, festive band,

And all Columbia—homage pay

To him who freed thy happy land.

Hail Columbia! Columbia's Genius, hail!

Freedom ever shall prevail.

II.

Brave, just, and generous, wise, sincere,

Thy virtues cheer each drooping Son;

And thy proud Rivals—half revere

Columbia's Genius, WASHINGTON.

Hail Columbia! &c.

III.

No more shall Envy blast our fame,

Or Jealousy our hearts divide,

The BAND OF BROTHERS—now proclaim

The knot indissolubly ty'd.

Hail Columbia! &c.

IV.

No more shall Discord cloud the day

That gave to INDEPENDENCE birth,

Henceforth we'll spurn the—Fiend away,

And drown our fears in wine and mirth.

Hail Columbia! &c.

V.

Now LIBERTY, by HEAV'N's command,

Returns to bless Columbia's shore;

Well pleas'd, she views the—happy land,

And cries, I'll wander now no more.

Hail Columbia! &c.

VI.

In this my last asylum blest,

Columbia shall my Empire own,

And HE who won me—stand confest

The faithful guardian of my throne.

Hail Columbia! &c.

VII.

COMMERCE shall rear her drooping head,

And open all her copious stores,

Her ships their lofty—pinions spread,

To waft them to remotest shores.

Hail Columbia! &c.

VIII.

Ye FAIR who grace Columbia's plains!

To you my Sons shall homage pay,

And though they scorn a—tyrant's chains,

Shall bow to Beauty's sov'reign sway.

Hail Columbia! &c.

IX.

On this bright dawn of HALCYON days,

Let fed'ral friends in concert join

To pour, while they the—flask can raise

Libations to the God of Wine.

Hail Columbia! Columbia's Genius, hail!

Freedom ever shall prevail.

E.C.