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When fanned by the soft summer sea breeze the

shore is;        [their chorus

When flocks beat around us, and pou

And mild morning beams gild the landscape

before us,    [the scene]

All sparkling with dew-drops, how charming

Healthy thy clime is of mild temperature,

Remote from the rage of the polar extremes,

And distant from regions where languishing na-

ture,

Melts in the blaze of the sun's torrid beams

Happy land, where no raging volcanoess are

roaring,    [

Where no serpents hiss, no fell monster

No clouds stor’d with death in thy horizon

lowering;      [wing.

Nor pestilence floats on thy wind’s breezy

While, daring and prudent, thy sons fill their

stations;       [arms;

Scarce equalled in Arts, and unrivalled in

For learning, thy fame resounds through the

Nations,        [charms,

And peerless, thy daughters, in virtue and

From times unrecorded thy freedom descended,

Through of heroes, whose broad sword

defended      [expended

Thy Charters—while foes saw them vengeance

Against thy wild mountains and borders in vain