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Rh But 'twas no sooner thought than done!

The field was in a moment won;

"Make way for liberty!" he cried,

Then ran, with arms extended wide,

As if his dearest friend to clasp;

Ten spears he swept within his grasp

"Make way for liberty!" he cried.

Their keen points crossed from side to side;

He bowed amidst them like a tree,

And thus made way for liberty.

Swift to the breach his comrades fly,

"Make way for liberty!" they cry,

And through the Austrian phalanx dart,

As rushed the spears through Arnold's heart

While instantaneous as his fall,

Rout, ruin, panic, seized them all;

An earthquake could not overthrow

A city with a surer blow.

Thus Switzerland again was free;

Thus Death made way for Liberty!

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Life, I Know Not What Thou Art.

! I know not what thou art,

But know that thou and I must part;

And when, or how, or where we met

I own to me's a secret yet.

Life! we've been long together

Through pleasant and through cloudy weather