Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 56
er claims to my love and loyalty?I will pass by in silence her fields and forests, herrivers and seas, the boundless riches hidden beneathher soil and amid the rocks of her mountains, herpure and health-giving air, her transcendent wealth ofnatures fairest and most precious gifts. I will notspeak… … Her Fields and Forests. in her singular grandeur, to which her material splen-dor is only the fitting circumstance. America born into the family of nations in theselatter times is the highest billow in humanitys evolu-tion, the crowning effort of ages in the aggrandizementof man. Unless we take her…
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