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MENTAL HORIZONS: 4. COLONEL SPREADEAGLE-PATRIOTISM by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON

First Line: BUT I HEAR THE TRAMP OF A MARCHING HOST
Last Line: "FOR THE NATION BOUGHT AT THE CANNON'S MOUTH!"
Subject(s): PATRIOTISM; WEST (U.S.); SOUTHWEST; PACIFIC STATES;

But I hear the tramp of a marching host;
Then look beyond our far-flung coast
As our spangled flag goes floating by,
And freedom's shout ascends the sky;
"America" we proudly sing,
And the orator bears us on the wing:
"No East, or West, no North, or South,
For the nation bought at the cannon's mouth!"



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