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NHG-P.765.060
31 Oct 1765:11 (474)
--But what avail her unexhausted stores,
Her blooming mountains and her funny shores,
With all the gifts that heav'n and earth impart,
The smiles of nature and the charms of art,
While proud oppressions in her vallies reigns,
And tyranny usurps her happy plains?
. . . [39 lines lamenting the Stamp Act, scheduled to begin
on 1 November]
As without liberty thy justly thought all the enjoyments of
life to a generous mind, a person freeborn, wou'd be
insipid, vapid and tasteless.
Oh liberty, thou Goddess heav'nly bright,
Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight!
Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign,
And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train;
Eas'd of her load subjection grows more light
And poverty looks chearful in thy sight;
. . . [6 lines, 16 more lines of prose, 19 lines, and 19
more lines about the Stamp Act]
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