Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to New England | | New Hampshire | | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| | 1845
GOD bless New Hampshire!—from her granite peaks | |
| Once more the voice of Stark and Langdon speaks. | |
| The long-bound vassal of the exulting South | |
| For very shame her self-forged chain has broken,— | |
| Torn the black seal of slavery from her mouth, | 5 |
| And in the clear tones of her old time spoken! | |
| O all undreamed-of, all unhoped-for changes!— | |
| The tyrant’s ally proves his sternest foe; | |
| To all his biddings, from her mountain ranges, | |
| New Hampshire thunders an indignant No! | 10 |
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| Who is it now despairs? O faint of heart, | |
| Look upward to those Northern mountains cold, | |
| Flouted by Freedom’s victor-flag unrolled, | |
| And gather strength to bear a manlier part! | |
| All is not lost. The angel of God’s blessing | 15 |
| Encamps with Freedom on the field of fight; | |
| Still to her banner, day by day, are pressing, | |
| Unlooked-for allies, striking for the right! | |
| Courage, then, Northern hearts!—Be firm, be true: | |
| What one brave state hath done, can ye not also do? | 20 | | | |
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