"Great God! we thank Thee for this home— This bounteous birth-land of the Free; Where wanderers from afar may come, And breathe the air of Liberty;— Still may her flowers untrampled spring, Her harvests wave, her cities rise; And yet till Time shall fold his wing, Remain earth's loveliest Paradise!"
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"Our Country", sts. 1 and 4. Reported in Anne C. Lynch (ed.) The Rhode-Island Book: Selections in Prose and Verse, from the Writings of Rhode-Island Citizens (Providence: H. Fuller, 1841) pp. 48–50
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William Jewett Pabodie
1813 – 1870
William Jewett Pabodie (1813–1870) was an American poet from Rhode Island.
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