The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

On LIBERTY.

AH! LIBERTY our country's darling prize,
A bleeding victim flits before our eyes:
Was it for this our great forefathers rode,
O'er a vast ocean to this bleak abode!
When liberty was into contest brought,
And loss of life was but a second thought;
By pious violence rejected thence,
To try the utmost stretch of providence;
The DEEP, unconscious of the surrounding keel,
Try'd tho' tempest to rebuke their zeal;
The tawny natives and inclement sky
Put on their terrors, and command to fly;
They mock at danger; what can thou appall
To whom fair LIBERTY is all in all.
See the new world their purchase. blest domains
Where lordly tyrants never forg'd the chain;
The prize of valour, and the gift of prayer,
Hear this and redden each degenerate heir!
Is it for you their honour to betray?
And give the harvest of their blood away
Look back with reverence, aw'd to just
Preserve the blessings handed down from
If not, look forwards, look with deep deh
And dread the curse of your beggar'd her:
What bosom beats not, when such themes excit
Be men, be gods, be stubborn in the right.