Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 214
l guise,Flower-bedecked neath sunny skies ;Old and time-stained, cracked and voiceless, butwhere all may see it well ; Prize the glorious relic then,With its hundred years and ten,By the Past a priceless heirloom to the Futurehanded down Still its stirring story tell,Till the children know it well,… … Circled by the wealth and power(If the great worlds triumph-hour,—Sacred to the cause of freedom, on its dais reststhe Bell. And the childen thronging near.Vet again the story hearOf the Bell that rang the message, pealing outto land and sea : ■ Man is man—a slave no longer; Truth and Right than…
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