. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . rRElARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DANIEL P. TuoMEVEDITED BV THOMAS C. QUINN BOSTON COLUMBIA PUBLISHING COMPANY 611 WASHINGTON STREET 1892 COPYRIGHT. COLUMBIA publishing; C( i8q2. ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS,BOSTON. rv]6\^5acl]\i^ Dark was the shore that clouded on the sightOf those grim mariners in the frail ship namedAfter the frailest blossoms of the May:Rough was the welcome offered, that first night,By rock-born waves that noisily proclaime
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . rRElARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DANIEL P. TuoMEVEDITED BV THOMAS C. QUINN BOSTON COLUMBIA PUBLISHING COMPANY 611 WASHINGTON STREET 1892 COPYRIGHT. COLUMBIA publishing; C( i8q2. ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS,BOSTON. rv]6\^5acl]\i^ Dark was the shore that clouded on the sightOf those grim mariners in the frail ship namedAfter the frailest blossoms of the May:Rough was the welcome offered, that first night,By rock-born waves that noisily proclaimedTheir joy of liberty in Plymouths bay;But ah! how bright and soft and glorious rose the day! O Mother State, thy word was nobly kept,Thy pledge of freedom to thy sons — and all!Of modern lands thou wert the first to say: No man shall own another. Thus there leapt,Ere thou wert loosed from Englands heavy thrall,Out of thine eyes the Futures guiding star that cannot fall, that gems the brow of day. While yet in leading-strings thou didst this deedImmortal, — wiping slavery from thy few years later thou wert first to shakeAll kings in their divineness, and to leadThy sister States to Glory, by the roadOf Lexington to Boston, and to wakeThe souls that will not rest till every chain shall break. O Massachusetts, Mother fond and merely of thy glori
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