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William McCarty, comp. The American National Song Book. 1842.

Liberty

CURSED be the man who e’er shall raise

His sacrilegious hand,

To drive fair Liberty, our praise,

From his own native land.

O, may his memory ne’er die,—

By future ages cursed;

But live to lasting infamy,

Branded, of traitors worst.

But, happy! happy! happy they,

Who, in their country’s cause,

Shall cast reluctant fear away,

Immortal in applause.

Who, with their conscious virtue girt,

Sha’n’t dread oppression’s voice;

But boldly dare those rights t’ assert,

In which all men rejoice.