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First Line: Yes! Rear thy guardian hero's form
Last Line: Of brothers o'er the deep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799)


YES! rear thy guardian hero's form
On thy proud soil, thou Western World!
A watcher through each sign of storm,
O'er freedom's flag unfurl'd.

There, as before a shrine to bow,
Bid thy true sons their children lead
The language of that noble brow
For all things good shall plead.

The spirit rear'd in patriot fight,
The virtue born of home and hearth,
There calmly throned, a holy light
Shall pour o'er chainless earth.

And let that work of England's hand,
Sent through the blast and surge's roar,
So girt with tranquil glory, stand
For ages on thy shore!

Such through all time the greetings be,
That with the Atlantic billow sweeps!
Telling the mighty and the free
Of brothers o'er the deep!





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