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Rh Where from the early dawn, a hardy throng Spread various works the loaded fliores along; Sound the harfli grating faw, or hammer loud, Or blow the roaring furnace, fable brow'd, Or ply the heavy hulks, propt up in air, From fmoking cauldrons, with ebullient tar, Or guide the groaning wheels, and ftraining fteed x To where the fons of Trade their wealth unlade. PRIDE of COLUMBIA! EBORACIA fair! What happy region will with thee compare For Nature's bounties fam'd? where fwells the more Withyo/7 o fertile, and with AIR so PURE? Two mighty rivers* round thee roll their ftreams, From the green bofom of the vafty fea, Wooing the winds fo cool ; when Sol's fierce beams Would finge the verdure of the thirfty lea. O may the braying trumpet's fhrill tongu'd roar Be heard among thine echoing wilds no more, Nor purple blood thy lilied vallies flain, Nor founds of death afright the refllefs main, Nor pantingy/W/ neigh to the clarion's blaft, Mocking the vengeful fword, and glittering fpearj. Nor wounded warriors 'midft the hurtle drear, Trampled beneath their courfers, figh their laft j But may thy virtuous fons unrivall'd fland, The boaft of Science and their native land; K k Led ju?ct at the fouih-weft end of the city.
 * The HUDSON and the EAST-RIVER or SOUNP, which