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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Joseph Hopkinson. (1770–1842)
 
4898
    Hail, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
  Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,
  Who fought and bled in Freedom’s cause,
And when the storm of war was gone,
Enjoyed the peace your valor won.
  Let independence be our boast,
  Ever mindful what it cost;
  Ever grateful for the prize,
  Let its altar reach the skies!
          Hail, Columbia!
 
William Wordsworth. (1770–1850)
 
4899
    Oh, be wiser thou!
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
          Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree.
4900
    And homeless near a thousand homes I stood,
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.
          Guilt and Sorrow. Stanza 41.
4901
    Action is transitory,—a step, a blow;
The motion of a muscle, this way or that.
          The Borderers. Act iii.
4902
    Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. 1
          The Borderers. Act iv. Sc. 2.
 
Note 1.
The intellectual power, through words and things,
Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!
The Excursion, book iii. [back]