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 * Thrill to hope and start
 * Vibrating as with one common heart.


 * From the perfumed South of amorous France

With her wreath of orange bloom and myrtle,
 * From old wizard woods of lost Romance

Soft with wail of wind and voice of turtle,
 * From the roaring sea
 * Of grey Normandy,
 * And the rich champaigns
 * Where the vine gads o'er Burgundian plains;


 * From the banks of the blue arrowy Rhone,

And from many a Western promontory,
 * From volcanic crags of cloven stone

Crowned with castles ivy-green in story;
 * From gay Gascon coasts
 * March fraternal hosts,
 * Equal hosts and free,
 * Pilgrims to the shrine of liberty.