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LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD

To desecrate my fee,

Nor yet have held in awe

The justice that makes free,—

Avaunt, ye darkling brood!

By Right my house hath stood:

My name is Liberty,

My throne is Law."

O wonderful and bright,

Immortal Freedom, hail!

Front, in thy fiery might,

The midnight and the gale;

Undaunted on this base

Guard well thy dwelling-place:

Till the last sun grow pale

Let there be Light!

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