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NHG-P.775.041
4 Jul 1775:23 (976)
The following was wrote the day before the first engagement.
TO THE AMERICANS.
Ye heirs of freedom! glorious is your cause,
Your all, your charter'd liberty and laws,
Are now at stake---then let the enoble fires
Which warm'd the bosoms of your Godlike sires,
Now fill your souls with an heroic flame
To shield your rights, and gain immortal fame!
Great liberty! Inspire each freeborn mind
With ardour in the cause of human kind,
The cause of heav'n the great concern of earth---
The cause of all who ever shall have birth,
From this bright hour, through ages as they roll,
Who live from the world's centre to the pole--
Americans! let man to man be join'd
In freedom's cause and courage steel each mind
. . . [10 more lines] April 18, 1775. Cato.
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