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Ye plenty my counftrv and peace, thy

And freedom's bright-fun-beanis thy

clear day,         pression:

And far from thy shores be all want and op-

While virtue's bold streams sweep corruption

away. (tion

May friendship unite, and may love and affec-

And reason, thy children exalt to perfection;

To guard thy loved shores, be thy strength

and protection;

While time rolls his ages unnumbered away.

SHE ROSE AMD LET ME IN.

The night her silent sable wore,

And gloomy were the skies

Of glittering stars appeared no more

Than those in Nelly’s eyes

When to her father's door I came,

Where I had often been,

I begged my fair, my lovely dame

To rise and let me in.

she, with accents all divine

Did my fond suit reprove,

And while she chid my rash design,

She but inflamed my love.