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IL.783.058
9 Jun 1783:11 (5/266)
From the New-Jersey Journal.
ON THE PEACE: AN ODE
Designed for Musick.
At length war's sanguine scenes are o'er;
Her dire alarms are heard no more
Thro' all Columbia's plain:
Sweet peace descends with balmy wings
And heaven-born Independence brings
With Freedom in her train.
CHORUS
Hail! Heaven descended guests, all hail!
Peace, Independence, Freedom, Hail!
. . . [5 verses and choruses]
Now let the loud shrill clarions play,
Triumphal peals proclaim the day,
The United States are free!
While round all chearing music floats,
And echoing hills rebound the notes,
God's firm and just decree!
Chor. --Halleluja, &c. &c.
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