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F Pilgrim eyes previsioned and Puritan lips foretold,

Dowered with wealth of woodland and glory of virgin gold,

Awoke the White Republic, the gift of the Lord Most High,

As broad and free as the borders be of her own wide western sky!

Mother of loyal daughters, whose girdle and guard are these—

Their leagues of inland waters and bulwarks of splendid seas,

Each to the other plighted till the end of time they stand,

Palmetto to pine united and prairie to pasture-land.

She hath store of grain ungarnered and harvests her sons have sown,

She is jewelled with mines unminted whose measure no man hath known,