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NYJ-N.770.082
28 Jun 1770:41 (1434)
A Dialogue, &c. spoken at the commencement, in the College
of Philadelphia, June 5, 1770.
Amyntor.
No more in academic forms we greet
Your kind indulgent ear. Prepare me now
The wonted strain of joy.-- But Damon, whence
That deep heav'd sigh; that brow o'rcast with care?
Why bends your look in sorrow to the ground,
To damp this festal day?
. . . [Damon replies, 12 lines; Amyntor, 16; an Air follows]
Freedom, mankind's safest guide!
Here erect thine endless reign;
Truth and justice by thy side,
Golden commerce in thy train!
. . . [4 more lines of Air; Damon, 10 lines; Thyrsis,31;
Amyntor,5; Damon,7; Air]
Time! thy wheels shall cease to move,
Nature in one ruin end!
But the archangel from above,
Shall in heavenly pomp descend,
And from the wreck, the roll of fame
Shall snatch, and save each patriot-name.
[Footnotes explain what names refer to: *The mother country
and the colonies. One of the names of ancient Egypt.
Hesperia or Italy. Alluding to the public spirited
agreement entered into by the generality of the American
merchants.]
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