If  bought  by  our  Sovereignty,  Justice,  or  Fame,

"  'Tis  the  fire  of  the  flint,  each  American  warms;
Let  Some's  haughty  victors  beware  of  collision,
Let  them  bring  all  the  vassals  of  Europe  in  arms —
We're  a  world  by  ourselves,  and  disclaim  a  divisioiL
While  with  patriot  pride
To  our  laws  we're  allied.
No  foe  can  subdue  us,  no  faction  divide.
"Our  mountains  are  crowned  with  imperial  oak.
Whose  roots,  like  our  liberties,  ages  have  nourished;
But  long  ere  our  nation  submits  to  the  yoke.
Not  a  tree  shall  be  left  on  the  field  where  it  flourished.
Should  invasion  impend.
Every  grove  would  descend
From  the  hill-lops  they  shaded,  our  shores  to  defend.
"  Let  our  patriots  destroy  Anarch's  pestilent  worm,.
Lest  our  Liberty's  growth  should  be  checked  by  corrosion;
Then  let  clouds  thicken  round  us,  we  heed  not  the  storm.
Our  realm  fears  no  shock  but  the  earth's  own  explosion.
ADAMS,  ELECTION  OF  10


Foee  assail  as  in  vain.
Though  their  fleets  bridge  the  main,
For  our  altars  and  laws  with  our  lives  we'll  maintain.
