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...despotism to self-government. When the appointed hour had come, and " God uncovered the land That he hid of old time in the west, As the sculptor uncovers the statue When he has wrought his best," then, and not till then, the man also was at hand. It is one of the most fortunate circumstances of...

...ball A field of havoc and war, Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor? My angel, — his name is Freedom, — Choose him to...uncovers the statue When he has wrought his best; * The day when the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. I show Columbia, of the rocks Which...

...began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. t. DBYDEN — Conquest of Granada. Act. I. Sc. 1. My 齀 j. EMERSON — Boston Hymn. We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall ; Equal...

...the perpetuity of this greatest of Republics, chiefest of Nations! "God uncovered the land That he hid of old time in the West, As the sculptor uncovers the etatue When he has wrought his best. "O, thon, my country, may the future see Thy shape majestic stand...

...314. 2. See Appendix, p. 85. Where tyrants great and tyrants small Might harry the weak and poor ? My angel, — his name is Freedom, — Choose him to be your king ; He shall cut pathways east and west i» And fend you with his wing. Lo ! I uncover the land Which I hid of old time in the West, As the...

...such poetic descriptions as those in Lowell's " Commemoration Ode" and Emerson's " Boston Hymn," — " Lo! I uncover the land Which I hid of old time in the West, As a sculptor uncovers the statue When he has wrought his best." And he comes to you and says, " Show...