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ntry's page, Without a cloud, undimmed by age, Revered by patriot and by sage; Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! Birney and Liberty. Hurrah! the ball is rolling on, Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! In spite of whig or loco don, Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! Our country still has hopes to rise, The bravest efforts win the prize, Hurrah! &c. With joy elate our friends appear, Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! Our vaunting foes are filled with fear, Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! Ten thousand slaves have run away From Georgia to Canada; Hurrah! &c. Lo! all the world for Birney now, Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! See! as he comes the parties bow, Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! No iron mixed with miry clay, Will ever do, the people say, Hurrah! &c. Then up, ye hearties, one and all! Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! Be faithful to your country's call; Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! Let none the vote of freedom shun, Run to the meeting--run, run, run! Hurrah, &c. Be Birney's name the one you choose, Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! Let not a soul his ballot lose, Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! No other man in this our day Will ever do, the people say: Hurrah! &c. THE BALLOT-BOX. Air--from "Lincoln." [Music] Freedom's consecrated dower, Casket of a priceless gem! Nobler heritage of power, Than imperial diadem! Corner-stone, on which was reared, Liberty's triumphal dome, When her glorious form appeared, 'Midst our own Green Mountain home. Guard it, Freemen! guard it well, Spotless as your maiden's fame! Never let your children tell Of your weakness, of your shame; That their fathers basely sold, What was bought with blood and toil, That you bartered right for gold, Here, on Freedom's sacred soil. Let your eagle's quenchless eye, Fixed, unerring, sleepless, bright, Watch, when danger hovers nigh, From his lofty mountain height; While the stripes and stars shall wave O'er this treasure, pure and free-- The land's Palladium, it shall save The home and shrine of liberty. Christian Mother. BY MISS C. Christian mother, when thy prayer, Trembles on the twilight air, And thou askest God to keep In their waking and their sleep, Those, whose love is more to thee Than the wealth of land or sea-- Think of those who wildly mourn For the loved ones from them torn. Christian daughter, sister, wife, Ye who wear a guarded life, Ye, whose bliss hangs not, thank God, On a tyrant's
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