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Title: Ballads of bravery
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Baker, George Melville, 1832-1890
Subjects: English poetry
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^jJ^ ITH what pride I used /■■liyft^ To walk these hills, and look up to my God,•^•-^-^^ And bless him that it was so ! I lovedIts very storms. I have sat In my boat at night when, midway oer the lake,The stars went out, and down the mountain gorgeThe wind came roaring. I have sat and eyedThe thunder breaking from his cloud, and smiledTo see him shake his lightnings oer my head,And think I had no master save his own.You know the jutting cliff round which a trackUp hither winds, whose base is but the browTo such another one, with scanty roomFor two abreast to pass ? Oertaken thereBy the mountain blast, I ve laid me flat along,And while gust followed gust more furiously,As if to sweep me oer the horrid brink.And I have thought of other lands, whose stormsAre summer flaws to those of mine, and justHave wished me there — the thought that mine was freeHas checked that wish; and I have raised my head,And cried in thraldrom to that furious wind.Blow on! This is the land of liberty!
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B ALL ADS OF BRAVERY. Jn 131 The -Fishermen,

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