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BG.749.029
30 May 1749:21 (1525)
Philadelphia. . . It is but a few years, even within the
memory of man, since this country was a wilderness,
Inhabited by beast of prey,
Or men as fierce and wild as they:
And the ground-plat of this flourishing city had not a house
on it---What an alteration !. . . [13 lines]
Orpheus is said, in old poetic fables, to have built a
city by the force of his musick, the sound of his harp
charming even the trees and stones to collect themselves
together: But the sweetest of all sounds is Liberty; and
wholesome laws with good government make the most enchanting
harmony; musick, which, like the last trumpet, will be heard
in the remotest regions, and collect mankind from the most
distant parts of the globe.
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