. Souvenir of excursion to Antietam and dedication of monuments of the 8th, 11th, 14th and 16th regiments of Connecticut volunteers . MONUMENT SIXTEENTH REGIMENT CONN. 45 Thy chosen people a good land, a land of brooks of water, offountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land ofwheat and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; aland of olive oil and honey ; a land wherein they could eat breadwithout scarceness, and in which they lacked nothing ; a land whosestones were iron, and out of whose hills they might dig brass, sodidst Thou guide our fathers to
. Souvenir of excursion to Antietam and dedication of monuments of the 8th, 11th, 14th and 16th regiments of Connecticut volunteers . MONUMENT SIXTEENTH REGIMENT CONN. 45 Thy chosen people a good land, a land of brooks of water, offountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land ofwheat and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates ; aland of olive oil and honey ; a land wherein they could eat breadwithout scarceness, and in which they lacked nothing ; a land whosestones were iron, and out of whose hills they might dig brass, sodidst Thou guide our fathers to this goodly heritage. It was notthrough their sword that they got the land in possession, butthrough Thy right hand and Thine arm, and the light of Thycountenance, because Thou hadst a favor unto them. As we acknowledge with grateful hearts the gift of this fairheritage, so may we remember, God of our fathers, that they laidthe foundations of the republic which has risen here, in blood ; thatwhen its life was assailed and endangered, it was saved throughblood, and that the very soil on which we are now standing is con-secrated by that blood, the blood of men who count
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