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'But with flowers of every hue, 'Love and mercy's path to strew! 'Swell to heaven the choral voice, 'Favor'd earth! rejoice, rejoice!

'Sleep, Ambition! rage, expire! 'Vengeance! fold thy wing of fire! 'Close thy dark and lurid eye, 'Bid thy torch, forsaken, die! 'Furl thy banner, waving proud, 'Dreadful as the thunder-cloud! 'Shall destruction blast the plain? 'Shall the falchion rage again? 'Shall the sword thy bands dissever? 'Never, sweet Affection! never! 'As the halcyon o'er the ocean, 'Lulls the billow's wild commotion, 'So we bid dissension cease. 'Bloom, O Amaranth of peace!