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THE TREE OF LIBERTY.

We fancy we can see the boat,
That bore our fathers o'er!

Our liberty was cradled there;
Old ocean wafted it ashore.

Our fathers bore the cruel laws,
That British Lords have always made,

Till liberty was there inscribed,

And in the silent grave was laid.

They raised the coffin from the tomb,
And vowed to plant that precious boon,
O'er all the land from sea to sea-
That glorious tree of liberty!

At Lexington was the first scene,

Where blood was poured upon the That blood was pure and it ran free,

To save the tree of liberty!

At Bunker Hill again we see,

green;

A crimson current drench that tree; They gained the victory-ah! how well

And marked the spot where Warren fell.

The Mayflower, in whose Cabin the first written form of Government was ever Subscribed by a whole people. Hence the Birth Place of our American Liberty, rocked on the free waves of the mighty Atlantic.