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I greet with a full heart the Land of the West, Whose Banner of Stars o'er a world is unrolled; Whose empire o'ershadows Atlantic's wide breast, And opens to sunset its gateway of gold! The land of the mountain, the land of the lake, And rivers that roll in magnificent tide Where the souls of the mighty from slumber awake, And hallow the soil for whose freedom they died!
Susan took time out for sightseeing, visiting the "President's house" and Mt. Vernon, which to her surprise she found in a state of "delapidation and decay." "The mark of slavery o'ershadows the whole," she wrote in her diary. "Oh the thought that it was here that he whose name is the pride of this Nation, was the Slave Master."
And where have I found In this wilderness round That spring and that shelter so true; Unfailing in need, And my own, indeed? Oh! dearest, I've found it in you! "And, oh when the cloud of some darkening hour O'ershadows the soul with its gloom, Then where is the light of the vestal pow'r, The lamp of pale Hope to illume?
There Polenta's eagle broods, And in his broad circumference of plume O'ershadows Cervia . The green talons grasp The land, that stood e'erwhile the proof so long And piled in bloody heap the host of France.
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